Lunar South Pole Earthset Viewed by Kaguya Spacecraft

JAXA’s Kaguya spacecraft spies the Earth in the distance as it passes below the south pole of the moon in November 2007. This video is usually presented with the Earth above the moon’s horizon, but has been inverted here to show north as up. Read the full blog post here: Credit: ©JAXA/NHK Data acquisition date: 2007-11-07