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The team that developed and launched the Japanese Kaguya mission to the Moon earned their entire salary on this photo right here - a high-definition image of the Earth, rising over the horizon of the Moon. It's like the Apollo Earth-rise image… just in high-def.
And what a way to put everything here on Earth back into perspective. As Carl Sagan said when talking about the pale blue dot of an Earth captured by NASA's Voyage 1. But instead of "dot", substitute, "cool high-definition image of the Earth".
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
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