X Marks a Spot Tonight and Spring Airglow

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 03/06/2025

TONIGHT! BE ALERT FOR THE ‘LUNAR X’: Have you seen the Lunar X? Once a month, when the sun rises over Crater Werner in the Moon’s southern hemisphere, sunlight grazes the region’s high terrain and makes a criss-cross shape 50 miles wide. It’s the Moon’s own alpenglow. The “X” is due to appear today, Thursday, March 6th, around 18:25 CST  (12:25 AM Friday, UTC).

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