Image: Old view moon
Size of this preview: 403 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 161 × 240 pixels | 519 × 771 pixels.
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Description: The figure was named "Lunar Day", and it represents a historical concept of the lunar surface appearance. Robotic missions to the Moon later demonstrated that the surface features are much more rounded due to a long history of impacts.
Title: Old view moon
Credit: This image is a flatbed scan from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., published in 1879. *Width: 519 *Height: 771
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