| NASA Center: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Image # : |
PIA00342 |
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| Date : |
01/02/1990
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Title
The Earth and Moon
Full Description
During its flight, the Galileo spacecraft returned images of the Earth and Moon.
Separate images of the Earth and Moon were combined to generate this view.
The Galileo spacecraft took the images in 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter
system in 1995-97. The image shows a partial view of the Earth centered on the
Pacific Ocean about latitude 20 degrees south. The west coast of South America
can be observed as well as the Caribbean; swirling white cloud patterns indicate
storms in the southeast Pacific.
The distinct bright ray crater at the bottom of the Moon is the Tycho impact
basin. The lunar dark areas are lava rock filled impact basins. This picture
contains same scale and relative color/albedo images of the Earth and Moon.
False colors via use of the 1-micron filter as red, 727-nm filter as green, and
violet filter as blue. The Galileo project is managed for NASA's Office of Space
Science by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Keywords
Galileo Earth Moon Jupiter Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL
Subject Category
Planet-Earth, Earths Moon, Voyager-Galileo,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JPL
- Center Number:
PIA00342
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-001437
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA, JPL
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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| Small |
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| Medium |
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1696 |
2074 |
1,304 |
| Large |
.jpg |
1696 |
2074 |
1,292 |
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