Lunar Fly By and Earth Approach

  • Released Monday, November 1, 2004
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This is an animation flying over the surface of the moon then approaching the earth. It was created in support of a presentation at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in October 2004. Scales are not accurate in this visualization. The Earth is about 3 times larger than it would actually appear. The source of the moon texture is unknown; it is thought to be a composite from several missions. The Earth texture was captured as the Galileo spacecraft swung by the Earth in 1990 for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter.

Lunar fly-by and Earth approach

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See http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/lunar1027.html

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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  • LRO Pre-Launch Resource Tape (ID: 2009030)
    Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Andy Acuna (Hughes STX)

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This page was originally published on Monday, November 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.