Although Cook County had mostly cloudy skies on Saturday, March 19, the night of the “Super Moon,” local photographer Stephen Hoglund caught the giant orb as it peeked through the clouds over the Grand Marais lighthouse. On Saturday, the nearly full moon (a perigee moon) arrived at its closest point to the earth since March 1993, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Leading up to the event, normally staid NASA declared that the moon would seem so nearby that you can almost reach out and touch it—but don’t bother, they added. Even a super perigee moon is still 356,577 kilometers away.
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