Viral Instagram Video Shows How Small the Space Station Is Compared to the Moon

Passionate astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy recently shared a video meant to humble all humanity. The video captured the moment when the International Space Station (ISS) transited the moon, showing us once again how small we are in the vastness of space. McCarthy captured the video from his backyard in Sacramento, on the morning of April the 10th. The ISS passed by the moon in a blink of an eye, which is why the photographer used slow motion to make the phenomenon more visible to our human gaze. “The transit against the lit portion of the moon lasted just a few hundredths of a second, shown here in a video slowed down roughly 6x”, explained McCarthy in his Instagram post. The moment of the day made Andrew’s job even harder, as the bright rays of the sun interfered with his shot of the moon. However, the result was still a stunning one, with the space station looking unbelievably tiny against the moon. The International Space Station is a team project built with the help of five space agencies: NASA (United States), CSA (Canada), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and Roscosmos (Russia). It was first launched in 1998, and the first crew of astronauts…
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