images

The Earth and Moon by Mariner 10.

by

Nasa/JPL/Novapix

Reference

a-lun50-00002

Date

2006-11-06

The Earth and Moon were imaged by Mariner 10 from 2.6 million km while completing the first ever Earth-Moon encounter by a spacecraft capable of returning digital color image data. These images have been combined to illustrate the relative sizes of the two bodies. Nov 10 1973.