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An Eclipse by Earthlight

Filed under pretty pictures, amateur image processing, the Moon, NASA lunar missions before 2005

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An Eclipse by Earthlight The Clementine lunar orbiter sees the solar corona as the moon eclipses the sun. The moon is partially illuminated by reflected Earthshine.

NASA / Naval Research Laboratory / Bill Dunford

Copyright holder: Bill Dunford

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about March 5, 1994

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