ESCAPADE Images Earth and Moon From Its Temporary Home

July 29, 2026 Universe Today

ESCAPADE Images Earth and Moon From Its Temporary Home
By David Dickinson (https://ift.tt/Aku3GfY)

ESCAPADE images the twin crescents of Earth (left) and the Moon (right). Credit: NASA/UCB-SSL/NAU-Radiant/Lucint.

Sometimes, you have embark on a journey to appreciate home. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission recently gave us just such a view of our homeworld and our large natural satellite, as seen from the spacecrafts’ temporary orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point.

July 29, 2026 at 08:16PM
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