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Earth and Moon from Galileo

large Earth with moon in the background
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
Published: October 4, 2017

During its flight to Jupiter in 1992, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view.

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