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Related: About this forumA Stunning Shot Of Our Pale Blue Dot Rising Over The Lunar Horizon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 "earthrises" every day, but it recently took full advantage of an opportunity to capture this image of Earth and it's marvelous.
Normally, the LRO has its camera pointing down on to the lunar surface. But in this instance, NASA scientists had it pitch forward while approaching the moon's north pole, allowing the LROC Wide Angle Camera to capture Earth rising above Rozhdestvenskiy crater (112 miles [180 km] in diameter).
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A Stunning Shot Of Our Pale Blue Dot Rising Over The Lunar Horizon (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2014
OP
It's our Blue Jewel! And I'd take it over that cold dusty place in the foreground
FailureToCommunicate
May 2014
#7
RGinNJ
(1,019 posts)1. I love seeing our big blue marble from space!
Thanks for the post.
Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)2. Beautiful!
Thank you for posting this!
It's amazing how small we look from the moon.
calimary
(81,110 posts)5. It's amazing how small we look - period.
I shared this to Facebook and commented - This tiny little dot is all we've got! Why can't we take better care of it?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)3. We are practically glowing!
Just beautiful! Thank you for posting this. I love all your space pic posts!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)4. STOP BOMBING THE MOOOOOOON!!!!
Star folks lunar sister indigo children menstrual disrupting nasa brutes space violators!!! Arrrrrrrgh!!!!!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)6. Damn...beat me to it!!! nt
FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)7. It's our Blue Jewel! And I'd take it over that cold dusty place in the foreground
anyday. (Unless I was an astronaut, I suppose)
Pale Blue Dot
(16,831 posts)9. I approve. nt
Wilms
(26,795 posts)10. It figures.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)11. That's a DUzy