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From 290 Million Km Away, NASA Spacecraft Captures A Stunning Earth-moon Portrait
Daily Galaxy ^ | August 21, 2025 | Ashley Morgan

Posted on 08/21/2025 12:38:48 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/21/2025 12:38:48 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; laplata; ...

Psyche Ping!..........................


2 posted on 08/21/2025 12:40:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

To look at it, you’d never know Earth is the place the Lord God chose to create man in his image, send His to die for man, and abide there forever.

He choses the “weak” things to confound the mighty. God’s way are not our ways.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 12:44:20 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Amen!


4 posted on 08/21/2025 12:54:03 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

I can see my house!


5 posted on 08/21/2025 12:56:39 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Red Badger

If I’d known they were going to take a picture of all of us that day, I would have worn a nicer shirt and smiled a little more.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 12:59:15 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Rio

LOL


7 posted on 08/21/2025 12:59:16 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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Nice! Thanks Red Badger.
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Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in October 2023, Psyche is en route to a one-of-a-kind asteroid believed to be the exposed metallic core of a failed planetesimal, a remnant from the early solar system.

8 posted on 08/21/2025 12:59:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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What if it gets to the asteroid and finds that it’s solid gold?!?!?!!?..................


9 posted on 08/21/2025 1:02:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Psyche Ping!

slang used to indicate you're joking or have just fooled someone

Indeed.

10 posted on 08/21/2025 1:02:59 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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I can see Sarah Palin!..................


11 posted on 08/21/2025 1:04:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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More likely nickel-iron. But either way, we need to plant our flag and prospect for more.
It's likely that our prospecting will be done from one of the Lagrange points, using a (finger quote) laser (finger quote).
From a different vantage point, maybe one or more sats cruising in Solar orbit, when the laser hits, the sats would read the emission spectra to assay the composition without waiting for a close-up visit which would take years and have to be done one at a time.
And, a possibly related sidebar:

12 posted on 08/21/2025 1:10:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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What if it gets to the asteroid and finds that it’s solid gold?

Too bad that, given the cost of transportation, it would still not be economically viable to lug any of that gold back to Earth.

Regards,

13 posted on 08/21/2025 1:10:16 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Shows no sign of intelligent life.


14 posted on 08/21/2025 1:11:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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And even if it was, it would crash the market for whatever metal was in it, making it as cheap as iron.............


15 posted on 08/21/2025 1:14:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Earth, the Final Frontier,

...these are the voyages, of the Starship, Psychopaths,

..a 5 year mission,

...to seek out the Only Life and Civilization,

...and to bodily go where only Man-Adam, has gone before....


16 posted on 08/21/2025 1:19:04 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Red Badger

I think I see me!


17 posted on 08/21/2025 1:21:51 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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Stunning? I’m stunned! Or... Am I stuned? It’s an earth and a moon in a picture from way out. Kind of what we would expect it to look like, isn’t it?


18 posted on 08/21/2025 1:24:38 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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NASA is American. What's with the French Revolutionary measurements?

From 177 million miles away...

19 posted on 08/21/2025 1:26:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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I guess we have different definitions of “breathtaking”...


20 posted on 08/21/2025 1:42:52 PM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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