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- Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Earth from Saturn - other stars? Moon? (APOD 27 Sep 2006)
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Is that really the moon? (APOD 27 Sep 2006)
The caption says that the bulge in the inset image is Earth's moon, but are you sure? It doesn't look like much and it seems way too close. Isn't the Earth about 8,000 miles wide, and a quarter million miles from the moon? I suppose if the moon were almost directly behind (or in front of) the Earth,...