Planets and Moons ID: 3041

Lunar Fly By and Earth Approach

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on November 1, 2004

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.

For More Information

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

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Piers Sellers (NASA/JSC): Scientist

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Missions:
Clementine
Galileo

Data Used:

Clementine/LIDAR/Lunar topography

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Galileo/Solid-State Imaging Camera/Earth Texture (1990)

1990/12/12

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Clementine and HST/HIRES and the Telescope/Lunar Composite Texture

1994/02/26-1994/05/05

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This item is part of this series:
The Moon

Goddard TV Tape:
G2009-030 -- LRO Pre-Launch Resource Tape

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Lunar
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Earth >> Texas >> Houston
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Venus
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Jupiter >> Atmosphere
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