A micromoon is set to occur Saturday as the full moon for April is set rise when the celestial body is at its farthest point from Earth.

The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about a 251,000-mile distance.

the sister of Apollo and namesake of NASA's current program to return astronauts to the moon; and representations of Earth, as where we come from, and Mars, as where we are ultimately headed.