NASA posted a photo of Earthrise over the Moon

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The NASA LRO orbits the moon and occasionally makes spectacular photos with views of the blue ball that we call home. Now we can once again marvel at the beauty of our home planet, because NASA released a new photo of high resolution.

The image consists of several pictures taken on October 12, the WAC and NAC cameras of the LRO probe. The black and white camera NAC allows us to see sharp detail, while colour wide angle camera WAC shows us colors. However, in order to obtain such an image was not enough to lay down two photos. NASA say that at first I had to turn the probe on its side to capture the lunar horizon.

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In the photo you can examine the lunar crater Compton is a Africa. NASA compares it with a photo taken by astronaut mission “Apollo 17” by Harrison Schmitt 7 December 1972.

According to the materials of Popular Science


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