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November 23, 2008
A little perspective...
The planet Earth and her Moon, as seen from 31 million miles away. Taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.
During a full Earth rotation, images obtained by Deep Impact at a 15-minute cadence have been combined to make a color video. During the video, the moon enters the frame (because of its orbital motion) and transits Earth, then leaves the frame. Other spacecraft have imaged Earth and the moon from space, but Deep Impact is the first to show a transit of Earth with enough detail to see large craters on the moon and oceans and continents on Earth.
There's more info and videos on the Deep Impact website... far out!
Posted by Snaggy at November 23, 2008 09:10 AM