moonlight 720p30
1 view Aug 16, 2023
Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar surface.
This visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy's best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer's Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts of this work, Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden.
The visuals were composed like a nature documentary, with clean cuts and a mostly stationary virtual camera. The viewer follows the Sun throughout a lunar day, seeing sunrises and then sunsets over prominent features on the Moon. The sprawling ray system surrounding Copernicus crater, for example, is revealed beneath receding shadows at sunrise and later slips back into darkness as night encroaches.
The visualization was created to accompany a performance of Clair de Lune by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops, led by conductor Emil de Cou, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on June 1 and 2, 2018, as part of a celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary.
The visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018.
-
LIVE
Kim Iversen
2 hours agoAmbassador Chas Freeman "Israel Has Never Put Forward A Peace Proposal"
1,136 watching -
1:24:49
Glenn Greenwald
3 hours agoBriahna Joy Gray on her Firing from The Hill and Free Speech Double Standards; Leighton Woodhouse on his Reporting About Dr. Fauci’s Dog Experiments | SYSTEM UPDATE #279
9.29K71 -
LIVE
Roseanne Barr
1 hour agoThe Roseanne & Jamie Kennedy Experiment | The Roseanne Barr Podcast #51
3,351 watching -
LIVE
FRENCHY4185
3 hours agoROAD TO 200 FOLLOWERS !!! XDEFIANT FT. THE BOYS !!!
833 watching -
LIVE
2 MIKES LIVE
4 hours ago2 MIKES LIVE #75 OPEN MIKE FRIDAY!
599 watching -
LIVE
Edge of Wonder
4 hours agoSpinning Fish, Strange Weather, Secret Bases & More Mandela Effect Proof
697 watching -
1:00:36
In The Litter Box w/ Jewels & Catturd
1 day agoLeftists Corrupt EVERYTHING | In the Litter Box w/ Jewels & Catturd - Ep. 582 - 6/7/2024
39.8K85 -
16:35
Breaking Points
1 day agoDC IGNORES Housing Crisis, TOP ISSUE For Gen Z
35.9K32 -
LIVE
SonnyFaz
2 hours agoBoston Gay Pride Parade...
586 watching -
1:58:56
Revenge of the Cis
5 hours agoEpisode 1345: Beauty Pageant
43.9K11