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To: SunkenCiv

Cool. I never thought about it before ... from Mercury, the Earth/Moon would look like a double planet, although the moon would be far dimmer(the surface of the moon only reflects 1/3 the light of the earth, per square foot, and has less than 1/13 the apparent area, so it would be about 1/40 as bright as the earth, but still visible by the naked eye)


6 posted on 07/24/2013 4:24:33 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd

as the distance from the earth to the moon is 30X the earths diameter, this picture shows the moon as it just about to go behind the earth/just came out from behind the earth/just about to go in front of the earth/just came out from in front of the earth.

also I would assume that the atmosphere free extremely white moon would reflect more of the suns light per square foot than the earth with its blue oceans and diffusing atmosphere....


7 posted on 07/24/2013 4:55:06 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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