Depends on Your Point of View
What if you could see all the world’s sunsets and all the world’s sunrises—all at the same time? Such a thing is possible, if you travel to the moon on May 4, 2004. On that day, the earth will eclipse the sun, and the only sunlight reaching the moon will pass through the keyhole of the earth’s atmosphere. The air will scatter the blue light down to the earth, but the red light will make its way back into space, and, from an earthly point of view, will dye the moon with the color of blood.
But from the perspective of someone on the moon, our planet will have a red and gold ring of hope around it, which, for just a moment, will let you see all the world’s sunsets on the west side of the earth, and all the world’s sunrises on the east. You could consider yourself united with millions of lonely poets and happy lovers on earth, finding a home for their heart in that sight.
No one has yet photographed this event from the moon. We can only gaze up and wonder what someone there might see if they were gazing back at us.
