Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Little Planet Shadowrise Image - Enzo De Bernardini,

NASA ^ | October 24, 2013 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: Warm shades and subtle colors come to the sky in the fading sunlight after shadowrise on this little planet. Of course the little planet is planet Earth, and this nadir-to-zenith, around-the-horizon mosaic maps the view from a small airfield near the town of Intendente Alvear, La Pampa province, Argentina. Just above the western horizon (top) the sky shines with the warm colors of sunset. The slate blue shadow of Earth itself extending through the atmosphere can be seen rising as it hugs the eastern horizon (bottom). Wrapped closely above the narrow projection of Earth's shadow is the gentle glow of reddened, backscattered sunlight called the antitwilight arch or the Belt of Venus.

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[Credit & Copyright: Acquisition -- Enzo De Bernardini; Processing -- w/Sophie le Comte]

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This reminds me of that one episode of Gumby where he visits asteroids (that's based on an underlying French allegory, if memory serves).

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that's based on an underlying French allegory, if memory serves

Sounds like Le Petit Price by St.-Exupéry.

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