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Earth seen from the early moon

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-lun99-00019

Image Size 300 DPI: 35 * 26 cm

The surface of the moon is cooling. Its now-solid crust is interrupted by continuous vulcanism and lava flows. A cloudy earth is circled by the vanishing remnant of the ring. Our planet looks larger in the lunar sky than it does today because the moon is much closer.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ERUPTION - FORMATION - ILLUSTRATION - LAVA - MOON - PLANET - PRECAMBRIAN - PRIMITIVE EARTH - RING - SATELLITE - VOLCANO -