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Phoenix : AZ : USA | about 1 year ago  
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  • Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon
    Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon
    Posted by: drudgeman
    A still from a video sequence of the Moon passing in front of the earth ...
Movie shows alien's-eye view of Earth and Moon

A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world.

The two brief sequences show the Moon passing in front of the Earth as it orbits.

"Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant, Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn, who leads the project using NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.

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