astrophotography on a new level...

[ving]

yoinked from astromonmy.com this picture was taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft from 29.6 million kilometers away. it shows our moon as well :eyepop:

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects/images/mess_moon_earth_0505_200.jpg
amazing stuff :)

full story here (http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=3184) .

umm... cant link pics at all now? :confuse3:

[iceman]

At the moment, external pics show up as links. Attached images show as thumbnails.

Will revise in the coming days/weeks.

[Greg Bryant]

Hi Ving,

Here are links to some other Earth-Moon shots. In chronological order...

Voyager 1 in 1977
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/vgr_earth_moon.jpg

Galileo in 1990
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/gal_earth_moon.jpg

NEAR in 1998
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/earth/near_earth_moon.jpg

Any favourites here?

[rowena]

I love how you can see the differences in the technology used.... the voyager pic looks so pixelated... but i bet that pic in the 1970's would of made everyone excited and in awe!...

But personally i like the galileo pic the best

[acropolite]

I like the Near photo best, it seems sharper and more detailed.

[[1ponders]]

Plus it shows us Phil :2thumbs:

[ving]

er... i actually like the one i posted... its from further away. I like the distace

[iceman]

I like vings one, as it's the only one that appears to be at scale.. the others look like they've just been plonked in the same photo.. are they real?

[astroron]

I Like the Voyager but only because they are my vavourite explorers and when we first saw them they where brilliant. astroron