ESCAPADE Images Earth and Moon From Its Temporary Home

ESCAPADE images the twin crescents of Earth (left) and the Moon (right). Credit: NASA/UCB-SSL/NAU-Radiant/Lucint.

Sometimes, you have embark on a journey to appreciate home. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission recently gave us just such a view of our homeworld and our large natural satellite, as seen from the spacecrafts’ temporary orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point.

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