Our Moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth, getting as close as 363,000 km and as far as 405,000 km. This means the Earth would get bigger and smaller in the sky.

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

This image of Earth from lunar orbit was acquired by NASA 's Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/Brown) The blue marble never loses its appeal.

New spaceship images show that the moon is way more than just shades of gray — instead, the orbital rock was observed to show tints of both blue and red as well.

Stunning new images of the moon have been beamed back to Earth from the European Space Agency’s Juice mission showing some sign of real colour differences on the lunar surface.

The new photo of Earth was taken from a distance of 231,358miles (372,335 km) by NASA's unmanned Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter during aroutine camera test as the probe orbited around the moon.

See Earth's ancient companion like never before with this gallery of incredible satellite, telescope and lunar orbiter images of the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Since then, the vehicle—equipped with 16 cameras on its exterior and interior—has flown by the lunar surface and captured various stunning images of both the moon and Earth.

The distance between the Earth and Moon is in reality about 30 times the diameter of Earth, or about 230,000 miles (370,000 km). The image below shows the distance of the Earth and Moon to scale.

The Moon is 238,900 miles away from Earth, but DSCOVR is a whopping 1 million miles away. The satellite is nearly 800,000 miles away from the Moon when it passes in front of the planet.

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Once in a blue moon might be more common than we thought. New images show that our moon is way more colorful than just shades of gray. Instead, the orbital rock was observed to show tints of both ...