Two new spacecraft have sent us back a few new pictures of the Earth. The Chandrayaan-1 (from India) spacecraft sent into orbit around the Moon is equipped with NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper and it captured the image above while it was orbiting just over 120 miles over the moon’s surface.

The picture (shown in false-color) was released on August 3rd. In some ways it reminds me of the original “Earthrise” photograph taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts. This was the famous voyage where the astronauts quoted Genesis chapter 1 on December 24th of 1968.

If you would like more information about this picture or the Indian spacecraft, click here to read a short article at space.com.

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