"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Very nice image.

Thx :)

> However, that high up in space, shouldn't the side facing away
> from the sun be nearly black in shadow?

It's only about 100 miles up. If you look at photographs taken in daylight of
the iss and nasa's sts orbiters, you'll see that they are brightly lit by
earthlight. Even shadowed areas on the moon get a decent amount of earthlight,
and that's 250,000 miles away.

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