New Photo Shows the Moon May Be Farther Away Than You consider
If the soil were the size of a basketball,the moon would be a tennis ball some 24 feet away. Because of space considerations, illustrations nearly always put them much closer together than they actually are.
A new photo from NASA may help to dispel these misconceptions. Captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft when the soil and moon were 249000 miles apart, or the image dramatically illustrates the distance. The soil is a tiny mottled ball at upper left and the moon is minute more than a grey speck in the lower just corner. Read more here.
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