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Coming up on Monday November 14th is a Supermoon, the closest moon

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to Earth since 1948 and till

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2034. So tell us what is a Supermoon and what makes this one

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so super? (Castro) A supermoon occurs when we have a full moon that

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that coincides with the moon being at it's perigee which is its closest point

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and it's elliptical orbit in relations to the Earth. This is what's going to allows us

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to see a bigger and brighter moon on November 14th. We haven't had this type

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of supermoon since 1948 and we won't get that chance again until

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2034. (reporter) When is the best time

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to see the supermoon and will it look different than other full moons.

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(Castro) As long as we have clear skies, you'll be able to see the supermoon leading up to

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November 14th, throughout the weekend till about two to three days, you can see a bigger

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about 14% and 30% brighter moon.

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(reporter) Many of our viewers will be amazed to hear

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that NASA has had a spacecraft orbiting the moon for over 7 years. What's

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the most surprising thing you've seen. (Castro) So the Lunar Reconnaissance

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Orbiter is a beautiful piece of technology, we've been able to get great

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great imaging and exquisite mapping of the moon

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which helps us realize that it's actually changing at a lot quicker rate

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than we initially thought. So, it's constantly being bombarded

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objects in outer space and one of the things we realized is that the Apollo

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foot prints that were left behind by the astronauts might actually be gone in

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tens of thousands of years instead of the millions that we originally thought.

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(reporter) What can our moon teach us other mysterious places deeper in the solar

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system? (Castro) We know the moon really well, we've been to the moon

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we're still mapping daily, we're imagining it daily, so we are able to

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use it as a reference point to other planetary objects, so for example

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when we got images back from the New Horizons mission of

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the planet Pluto, we're able to see that has a less cratered surface than

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compared to the moon. So we are deduce that perhaps Pluto's bombardment

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is a lot different than that we see on the moon

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and maybe even a younger body. (reporter) Where can we learn more?

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(Castro) You can learn more at NASA.gov/lro and

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we encourage that you share your pictures with us at #NASAsupermoon

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