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Thread started 01/12/17 3:51pm

morningsong

A look of our planet from Mars and other places out there.

The pix are huge, so I apologize in advance.

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In this image taken in November 2016 from 127 million miles away by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Earth and the moon are pictured together.



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This photo was the world's first view of Earth taken near the moon. It was snapped by the U.S. Lunar Orbiter I on August 23, 1966, when the spacecraft was just about to pass behind the moon on its 16th orbit.



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In this rare image taken by the wide-angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013, Earth and its moon are pictured with Saturn's rings in the foreground (Earth is denoted with an arrow).



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In this photograph taken during the second successful mission to land on the moon, Apollo 12 astronauts captured the mystical scene of an Earthrise



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The Galileo spacecraft, the first to visit an astreroid and to thoroughly document Jupiter's moons, captured this composite view of Earth and its moon on December 16, 1992, 3.9 million miles from Earth.



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The full moon appears to sink into Earth's atmosphere in a November 2013 photograph from the International Space Station. The bottom of the moon seems distorted because its light is being refracted by Earth's atmospheric layers.




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This photograph taken from the Cassini spacecraft, nearly one million miles away, shows the bright spot of the Earth and its Moon orbiting around their Sun.




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The far side of the moon, never seen from Earth, passes between NOAA's DSCOVR satellite and Earth in a "lunar photobomb."

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Reply #1 posted 01/12/17 3:59pm

XxAxX

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SO cool! thanks for posting these

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Reply #2 posted 01/12/17 5:50pm

Hudson

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Looks like the death star about to blow up Alderaan in that last one, heh.

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Reply #3 posted 01/14/17 1:33am

uPtoWnNY

Hudson said:

Looks like the death star about to blow up Alderaan in that last one, heh.

Saturn's moon Mimas actually resembles the Death Star. It has an impact crater nearly one-third its size.

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Reply #4 posted 01/15/17 7:20am

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wow.

check this: https://www.sciencedaily....110749.htm



The moon is older than scientists thought

Formation occurred 4.51 billion years ago, millions of years earlier than previously believed

Date:January 12, 2017Source:University of California - Los AngelesSummary:The moon is much older than some scientists believe, a research team now reports. Their precise analysis of zircons bought to Earth by Apollo 14 astronauts reveals the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old and probably formed only about 60 million years after the birth of the solar system -- 40 to 140 million years earlier than recently thought.


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http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/01/old-moon

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Reply #5 posted 01/16/17 11:46am

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Our Young Earth May Have Had Multiple Moons That Merged Into One

In this new model, our Moon wasn't formed by a single impact, but by multiple impacts over time. Each impact would have created a ring of material around Earth, which collapsed into one or a few larger moons over time. Multiple impacts would have created multiple moons over the ages. If this is really what happened, why do we have just one moon instead of several? The key is the long term tidal effects on these moons.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/01/16/our-young-earth-may-have-had-multiple-moons-that-merged-into-one/#544cb72f4801

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Reply #6 posted 01/16/17 12:02pm

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http://www.moovy.dk/images/original/themeseason1hd12.jpg

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Reply #7 posted 01/16/17 3:54pm

morningsong

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