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03 November 2008
Chandrayaan-1 Tests Out Camera; Target: Earth
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While the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft wends its way to the Moon with gradually longer elliptical loops around the Earth, mission scientists decided to test out the main camera on board, the Terrain Mapping camera (TMC). The camera snapped this picture of Earth on October 29, 2008, at a distance of 70,000 km, showing Australia. [...]
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13 November 2007
Earth Rise, Seen by Kaguya
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The team that developed and launched the Japanese Kaguya mission to the Moon earned their entire salary on this photo right here - a high-definition image of the Earth, rising over the horizon of the Moon. It's like the Apollo Earth-rise image… just in high-def.
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02 October 2007
Lunar Probe's High Definition View of the Earth
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There's nothing as nice as a pretty view of our home planet. It really puts things in perspective. I'm on that planet, and so are you. It's a high definition image of the Earth, of course, captured on September 29th by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya (aka Selene) from a distance of 110,000 km. It's currently [...]