Earth and Moon

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The Earth and Moon are rarely photographed together. One of most spectacular times this occurred was about 30 years ago when the Jupiter-bound Galileo Spacecraft zoomed past our home Solar System.

Then, robotic Galileo watched from about 15-times the Earth-Moon separation as our only natural satellite glided past our home world.

The featured video combines 52 historic color-enhanced images. Although our Moon may appear small next to the Earth, no other planet in our Solar System has a satellite so comparable in size .

The Sun, far off to the right, illuminated about half of each sphere, and shows the spinning Earth’s white clouds, blue oceans, and tan continents.