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A New Look At an Old Friend

Filed under pretty pictures, amateur image processing, the Moon, MESSENGER

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A New Look At an Old Friend This might look like a Voyager snapshot of a moon of Neptune, but it's the far side of our own, seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it swung near Earth on its way to Mercury. I've sharpened and enhanced the contrast of the original image.

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/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 July 31, 2005

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