“The nice thing about a full moon is that if clouds obscure your view on Monday night, you’ll still see a near- full moon calendar 2025 the following evening,” Noah Petro, project scientist for NASA’s Artemis III mission to land astronauts on the lunar south pole in 2027, said in a statement.
This year’s Harvest Moon is also a supermoon, the first of three this year. The first supermoon of the year happen when the moon is at its perigee, the point in its orbit at which it’s closest to the Earth. The closer proximity to our planet means the moon will appear “a little larger, a little brighter, and therefore a little more impressive in the sky,” Petro explained.
October’s full Moon has been known as the Hunter’s Moon since ancient times. At that time of year, hunters would set out to colle