Fort Smith Region Shares Super Moon Eclipse On Social Media

The sky over the Fort Smith region Sunday gave residents a clear view of a rare phenomenon as a super moon coincided with a lunar eclipse for the first time since 1982.

A super moon, when the moon moves through the section of its orbit closest to Earth, gives the moon a larger and brighter appearance. A lunar eclipse, which gives the moon a reddish hue as it passes through Earth’s shadow, is sometimes called a blood moon. The two events will not occur at the same time again until 2033.

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