A mind-boggling photo from NASA's Lucy probe shows how far the moon is from Earth. Can you spot it?
. Our planet is obvious, on the far right side of the image, but the moon is a little harder to spot. Do you see it?
This isn't a prank. The moon is there. NASA's Lucy probe, a mission to a group of asteroids near Jupiter, snapped this photo as it zoomed past Earth on October 13. Not many spacecraft get this perspective of our planet and its rocky satellite.It varies, but on average the moon is 384,400km from Earth. On a cosmic scale, that's not very far, but you could fit 30 Earths into that space. That's why it took three days for Apollo astronauts to reach the moon.
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