The Chinese scientists recently launched an unmanned spacecraft called Chang'e 5-T1. It went past the moon, bounced back and safely landed on Earth a few days later.
Here is a photo it took when it was traveling behind the moon (from our vantage point).
This is a real photo. No photo editing whatsoever. We can even see some moon surface that we can never see from Earth because the moon spins at the same rate as it revolves around the Earth.
Higher resolution photo:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1411/Mo ... A_2048.jpg
Unbelievable how small our planet is from space. To us, it may look "gianourmous" but in reality it is just a tiny speck lost in the vastness of space...
The moon is rather cool too isn't it? I would have loved to have been an astronaut when I was a kid. (grew up in the Apollo age)
) Yet last night when I closed my eyes and opened myself to whatever came...I felt the moonbeams just as I do the sun and felt so at peace. ( I suppose actually they maybe one in the same though as the moon is reflecting the sun. But still a sense of well being carried me throughout the night. It was lovely being at peace with the universe )
