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NASA Video Captures Moon Passing in Front of Earth
It’s how aliens would see Earth — if their telescopes were powerful enough.
A NASA space probe has captured stunningly detailed video footage of the Moon passing in front of the Earth from a distance of 31 million miles, more than 100 times the Moon’s orbit.
“Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us,” explained University of Maryland astronomer Michael A’Hearn in a NASA press release.
NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, on its way from one comet rendezvous to another, was instructed to snap stills of our home planet in 15-minute intervals on May 29.
The colors are not exactly what we’re used to seeing in images of the Earth and Moon — for example, the Moon is more brown than white.
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