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Moon taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist
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S90-55753 (9 Dec. 1990) --- This color image of the Moon was taken by the Galileo spacecraft at 9:25 a.m. (PST) December 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles. The color composite uses monochrome images taken through violet, red, and near infrared filters. The concentric, circular Orientale Basin, 600 miles across, is near the center; the near side is to the right, the far side to the left. At the upper right is the large, dark Oceanus Procellarum; below it is the smaller Mare Humorum.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMoon taken by Galileo after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist. NASA/JSC, 1990-12-09. Public domain. ID: S90-55753.
