Synopsis
This is a beauty shot animation flying over the surface of the moon created in support of a series of live interviews about the 2004 lunar eclipse. Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. Note: Lunar…
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