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by NickRandom 1363 days ago
No need to imagine, have a look at

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...

and https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_6...

I would have linked to the 'Blue Marble' picture but that was taken mid-flight rather than from the moon itself.

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The photo doesn't do it justice tho. Just like a photo of the full Moon low on the horizon doesn't look anywhere close to what my eyes are seeing. Now imagine a full moon, with a diameter roughly 4 times as big, that's how big the Earth is looking back from the moon. North America itself is the size of the full moon. Pretty wild to think about.