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Waning Gibbous

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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Waning gibbous. Rises after sunset, high in the sky after midnight, visible to the southwest after sunrise. This marks the first time that accurate shadows at this level of detail are possible in such a computer simulation. The shadows are based on the global elevation map being developed from measurements by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

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Waning Gibbous moon nasa lunareclipse lro lundar goddardspaceflightcenter

Credit lineWaning Gibbous. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001860.

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