A Family Portrait.
Here’s a nice photo of our home, Earth and it’s good ole friend the moon, I suppose, the other half of our system.
Although we see our moon nightly and observe it’s daily effects on our tides, I think I can be forgiven for saying that we didn’t really grow to appreciate the relationship between the Moon and Earth until we set foot on it in 1969. So, it’s nice to have a photo of them together.
Taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in 2011, we see Earth on the left and the Moon on the right. The image was taken when the spacecraft was around 9.66 million kilometres away; a long way from home.
-Jean
Image courtesy of NASA
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