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by 127001brewer 5341 days ago
Here's an image of the Earth (on the left) and the Moon (on the right) to get a better sense of the distance between the two:

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/51000/5196...

3 comments

Wow, I'm not sure I fully grasped the distance until I saw that picture. The fact that people actually went allllll the way out there and back just astounds me.
I like this better. Also shows you the speed of light.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Speed_of_...