We Are Just a Star
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 9:45PM
[chuck] in Messenger spacecraft, Science, earth and moon

The lower left of the image above shows the Earth, as well as the much smaller Moon to Earth's right.  The image was taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft at a distance of 114 million miles from Earth. Just another dot in the sky. Puts a lot of things in perspective. [CREDIT: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington].

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