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The Moon passes in front of the Earth in this video taken by the Deep Impact spacecraft, now called EPOXI. The continents are much more pronounced because they were imaged through an infrared filter, and vegetation is bright at near-infrared wavelengths (Courtesy of Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation/GSFC; EPOCh/DIXI Science Teams)

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  • where's the HD verson?

  • i' m sure those scientists folks know a lot that they are not gonna show us, usually they pick the crappy stuff and show it to the people and htey leave the jiucy and important stuff for their own exploration and use.

  • Venus does suffer from a runaway green house effect, a closer orbit is just cherries on top.

  • Gotta love the Goldilocks zone.

  • Shadowpillar, I'm aware that Venus has a higher surface temp due to the atmosphere. My point is that the thick atmosphere is caused by the planet being closer to the sun, causing liquid gasses to boil off and contribute to the atmosphere. Mercury does not have an atmosphere as i'm sure you're aware.

  • Not methane, sulfuric acid. While some of it is due to its relative closeness to the sun, the other is the greenhouse affect, as Venus' surface temperature is hotter than that of Mercury's surface temperature, and mercury basically hugs the sun. Mercury oddly also has some of the coldest temperatures in the solar system on its night side (-297F!)

  • Thats completley wrong, Venus is pretty much hell, viscous acid rain, thick methane clouds 300 degree temperature. Venus doesn't suffer from global warming, it suffers from being in a closer orbit around the sun, if you took earth and put it in the same orbit then the seas would boil and methane would be released from the rocks causing a thick atmosphere and then earth would turn into another Venus. Last time a checked global warming isn't caused by a decreased solar orbit.

  • You're yet to refer me to this image. But it looks like you've found an explanation?

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