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Post by alienbeing on Aug 23, 2010 23:04:24 GMT 10
You are here: Incredible photo of the 'twin star' that is the Earth and Moon taken from 114 million miles away It is an image that should put us firmly in our place. Set against the inky blackness of space our Earth can be seen with the smaller Moon in orbiting around it from a distance of around 114 million miles. Taken by Nasa's Messenger deep space probe the incredible image illustrates how insignificant we really are. Earth can be seen at a distance of around 114million miles in an image taken by Nasa's Messenger spacecraftA beautiful, thought-provoking picture, this image was actually taken as part of Messenger's mission to search for vulcanoids, small rocky objects that scientists believe exist in orbits between Mercury and the Sun. No vulcanoids have yet been detected, the Messenger spacecraft is in a unique position to look for smaller and fainter objects than have ever before been possible. Messenger searches for vulcanoids when the spacecraft's orbit brings it closest to the Sun. It follows a path through the inner solar system, including one flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus, and three flybys of Mercury. Messenger and is using gravity from Earth and Venus to slightly alter its orbit over time before it moves into Mercury's orbit in March 2011. An image from the space craft Cassini of the Earth and moon just visible as a tiny dot through Saturn's rings taken in 2006www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1305422/Incredible-image-Moon-orbiting-Earth-taken-Nasa-probe-114-million-miles-away.html
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Post by Wes on Aug 23, 2010 23:37:31 GMT 10
Yeah Alien the Universe is a big place. And there is little us and we are not even in the center, just placed randomly in it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2010 17:13:45 GMT 10
You may not be at the centre of the universe Wes, but I am
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