Latest LRO Earthrise

[Knight of Clear Skies]

More details here on the LRO site.

Also, here's an animation at 20x real time. The banding is due to the way the LROs optics and filters are put together.

[Beulah]

Wow, our planet is so beautiful!

I'm pretty certain that if there was another earth-type planet in our solar system, we would have found a way of travelling there by now...

[ronl]

It's such a contrast, the barren Moon and the fabulous color of Earth,

what a great target Earth would be through a scope, but I love viewing

the Moon, so we must be grateful to our Moon, great image.