As stargazers across different parts of the world were mesmerised at the sight of the full moon over the weekend, business tycoon Anand Mahindra prompted netizens to share photographs of Earth’s satellite.
“Sunday is a day for imagining your pathway to the fulfilment of your dreams… What is your moonshot? #SundayDreams,” the Mahindra Group chairman wrote while sharing a photograph of the moon. The lit-up road seen in the photograph seems like the “road to the moon”.
Sunday is a day for imagining your pathway to the fulfilment of your dreams… What is your moonshot? #SundayDreams pic.twitter.com/DSb6T1tPJu
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) April 17, 2022
The tweet posted on Sunday garnered more than 1,36,000 likes so far. As netizens shared amazing photos of the moon from different parts of the world, Mahindra retweeted a few of them.
Chennai 2 night ago ! pic.twitter.com/9ZK0hHKAGG
— Srini Santhanam (@Srinis007) April 17, 2022
This morning! Happy Easter 🇮🇳 💕#moonshot pic.twitter.com/DHZtoXzsUg
— Jaya Khare (@jaya2004khare) April 17, 2022
Capturing the dream moon through flowered Dubai neem tree!!! pic.twitter.com/quafwUnlVJ
— Vishnu Murthy Mysuru (@VishnuMDubai) April 17, 2022
Tiruvannamalai… pic.twitter.com/A5x9tm89JV
— A Saravanan (@Asaravanan5) April 17, 2022
Sir, we witnessed a ring around the moon in Kasauli hills at night last week. Its a scientific phenomenon called 22 Halo effect. Captured by my friend Nitish. pic.twitter.com/XICp6Qvtnn
— puneet (@DoGoodEatWell) April 18, 2022
— Neelam Sharma ( Dogra)🇮🇳 (@itmattertome) April 17, 2022
I am absolutely obsessed with the moon, as my handle name says. Here are some pictures taken from the phone, an amateur telescope and when #MuseumOfTheMoon was at Gateway of India in 2018. I would like to one day travel #tothemoon and that’s my moonshot. pic.twitter.com/AYVnqX9D1p
— Avantika / Jill Of All Trades (@stunningmoon) April 17, 2022
Sir Saturday Evening Sun set pic.twitter.com/tuyGhjkZTC
— Jayprakash Patil (@PJAYRAJ1) April 17, 2022
Reuters also shared a clip of April’s full moon seen over Santiago, the capital of Chile. The celestial phenomenon, “Pink Moon”, is named after an American plant, pink phlox, that blooms in spring as per Reuters. The moon is also called Paschal Moon, as per Space.com.
April’s full moon was clearly visible over Santiago, the capital of Chile pic.twitter.com/HfYRG9IlKy
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 18, 2022
The April full moon has significance in different cultures and different religious festivals, including Easter, Hanuman Jayanti, and Bak Poya, are observed on the day. Easter Sunday always falls on the first Sunday after the full moon. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is ongoing during the full moon and the fasting usually begins with April’s new moon.
Meanwhile, Hindus celebrate Hanuman Jayanti, the birth of Lord Hanuman, on the full moon day and Buddhists commemorate Buddha’s visit to Sri Lanka to resolve a conflict, Bak Poya, as per Space.com.