Let's take "How the World Works" to the next metalevel. On November 7, a camera aboard the Japanese lunar explorer Kaguya filmed the Earth rising and setting over a lunar landscape. Pink Tentacle says a high definition television broadcast of the footage is on the way, but in the meantime, even a lower-resolution YouTube abridged version is fantastic.
Here comes the Earth
A 2007 Space Odyssey, minus special effects or CGI
Published November 14, 2007 3:15PM (EST)
By Andrew Leonard
Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21.
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