The animation given month with respect to the future of the 2013 Glimpse

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to help create an animation, every hour next year the entire surface of the moon.

LRO Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter terrain tracking ship, it can be simulated in the shadow of the lunar surface.

"As the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, now we have a good moon, it can tell us at any point on the surface elevation of topographic maps, Ernie Wright said:" The new video from the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS ). "I use these mapped to the lunar sphere bumps in all the right places. Rendering software can realistically simulate all shadows and ragged terminator (the dividing line between day and night)."

Animation display geocentric stage vibration, the position angle of the axis of the moon, as well as the moon's apparent diameter.

Animation Studios, Hollywood, the same software used to create 3D animation and special effects. This tool to help Wright arrangements to virtual cameras, lights and objects in a scene.

By calculating the direction of the Earth and the Sun, every hour in this year. After this, he wrote the program, told the animation software to the position of the Earth with the camera, and pointed out that in the same light from which direction sunny.

Wright said, the moon is at the scene centered around the camera and light flight motionless. Each frame of animation on behalf of the one hour, and the program helps to set the position and direction of each frame.

Due to the tilt and shape of the moon, the people on Earth to see the moon from a slightly different point of view, the process in a month. A month is compressed into 24 seconds, taking into account the changes of the moon makes it look like it's rocking.

The most obvious change in the appearance of the moon is the stage of the cycle, which is caused by the change of the angle of the sun when the moon orbits the Earth. The beginning of the cycle, the waxing crescent in the west after sunset. After the first quarter, the moon is high in the sky at sunset, midnight and sets around.

The full moon rises in the setting sun at midnight. After sunrise, the third quarter of the moon is often surprisingly significant western sky.