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Image Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Ernie Wright
Published: July 20, 2018

Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar surface.

Music performed by Timothy Michael Hammond, distributed by Killer Tracks.

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