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Apollo 17: The Crescent Earth

2021 April 29

Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter

Here comes Jupiter!

Crescent Saturn

Saturn never shows a crescent phase from Earth.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: The Hill, The Moon, and Saturn

Last Sunday when the Moon was young its sunlit crescent hung low near the western horizon at sunset.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Red Planet, Red Moon, and Mars

Mars is also known as The Red Planet, often seen with a reddish tinge in dark night skies.

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Passing Jupiter

Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet

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