Friday, November 20, 2009
The Crescent Earth from Rosetta
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The Rosetta spacecraft, on its way to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko did another flyby of the Earth-Moon system. This striking image of the crescent Earth is my favourite, but there is a number of images and an animation of the approach to Earth here.