Look at Earth, look at Sea: the planet is on the horizon of the Moon – The Messenger

Look at Earth, look at Sea (Homboldtianum, to be precise). We change the notes and prospects, but not emotions, even though there was an astronaut behind the camera: But does hold your breath the image taken by the probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter NASA. And ‘the Earth that is precisely the view of the moon and the sea of ​​sand mixed results in the foreground is a strip from stormy crater Compton.

In fact, this photograph is the result of processing more images because it is very rare the cameras of the probe, the Moon and the Earth are in a position to achieve this, this despite the fact that Libyans have the privilege of “seeing” 12 sunrises Earth to the Moon. Among the most important shots and loads of charm of our planet should be mentioned that the astronaut astronaut Jim Lovell in Christmas 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission (and until then only the protagonists of the novel by Verne had seen up close the Moon ) and that, now called Blue Marble, astronaut Harrison Schmitt in 1972 (Apollo 17). Exciting, although black and white, and with a partial view of the Earth, the picture of 1966: memorable mainly because

 is the first of its kind and was taken through the probe Lunar Orbiter 1.

The satellite-probe Dscovr, last August, then made Bingo is hitting the moon is the Earth, with the first one “impallava” the second: two goals thanks to the distance from the planet and its satellites: 1.6 million km, while Libyans, orbiting the Moon, is the average distance from the earth only 400 thousand kilometers.
 

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