Jul 182008
The Deep impact comet probe, 31 million miles from Earth, looked back and watched the moon transit the face of the Earth. Cool stuff. NASA press release here:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/epoxi_transit.html
One Response to “Earth and moon from deep space”
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I know the Moon has a low albedo, but it still looks odd to see it so dark against the Earth–which apparently is >very< bright, to the point that the camera had to f-stop way down.
And yet a new perspective on ourselves I’ve never seen before.