During its flight to Jupiter, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon. Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view. This picture contains same scale and relative color/albedo images of the Earth and Moon.
The Galileo project was managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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I love this! Can’t believe this shot is over 30 years old.
Considering how bright the full moon looks at night from here, do you believe Earth would be almost painful to look at from the moon?
That looks like a gnarly storm in the South Pacific
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That’s no moon. It’s a… no, wait. It’s the moon 🤣
Wow that’s some really nice AI, obviously this was staged
Our home Planet Earth with our beautiful Moon.
BS.
Link to the actual shot: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/galileo-earth-moon/#:~:text=In%201992%2C%20the%20Galileo%20spacecraft%20took%20a,shows%20the%20Moon%20in%20orbit%20around%20Earth.