Spacecraft Sees Earth as an Alien World
July 18, 2008
NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft’s point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.
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Environment, Technology Internet, Spaceflight, Deep Impact, Discovery program, World NASA, Magellan probe, EPOXI, Moon