Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World

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Series of images showing the Moon transiting Earth captured by NASAs EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: Donald J. Lindler Sigma Space CorporationGSFC EPOChDIXI Science Teams
Series of images showing the Moon transiting Earth, captured by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation/GSFC; EPOCh/DIXI Science Teams
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds.


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