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Description: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/earth-over-the-lunar-limb.html NOTE (by UpLoader Drbogdan (talk) 15:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)): Original PNG Image Converted To JPG Image via IrfanView v4.36. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The Earth straddling the limb of the Moon, as seen from above Compton crater. The large tan area in the upper right is the Sahara desert, and just beyond is Saudia Arabia. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left. WAC E1199291151C (Earth only), NAC M1199291564LR (Earth and Moon); sequence start time 12 October 2015 12:18:17.384 UTC Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter used both narrow- and wide-angle cameras to capture this view of a colorful Earth beyond the lunar limb on October 12, 2015. The Moon's surface is a grayscale narrow-angle camera photo; Earth has been colorized with wide-angle camera data. Read more about how this photo was created at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website. Download a full-resolution PNG version here (53 MB). https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/4-mars/2015/Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_20151211_141513.png
Title: EarthFromTheMoon-LRO-20151012a
Credit: https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/4-mars/2015/Earth_and_Limb_M1199291564L_color_2stretch_20151211_141513.png
Author: NASA / GSFC / ASU
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