NASA Photo ID: S90-55751           File Name: 10063797.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 12/31/90
  Title: Color visualizations of the Moon taken by Galileo spacecraft
  Description:
  Color visualizations of the Moon were obtained by Galileo spacecraft as it 
  left the Earth after completing its first Earth Gravity Assist.  The image
  on  the right was acquired at 6:47 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) 12-08-90
  from a  distance of almost 220,000 miles, while that on the left was
  obtained at 9:35  am PST 12-09-90 at a range of more than 350,000 miles. 
  The side-by-side  images show the near side and about 30 degrees of the far
  side (right view)  and full disk with a little less than half the near side
  and more than half  the far side visible (left view).  Photo provided by
  the Jet Propulsion  Laboratory (JPL) with the alternate number P-37363,
  12-19-90.             
  Subject terms:
  FLYBY MISSIONS                          
  GALILEO SPACECRAFT                      
  MOON
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