Earth and Moon, 3 June 2026

A large thin crescent and a smaller thin crescent, seen against the blackness of space
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A large thin crescent and a smaller thin crescent, seen against the blackness of space
"ESCAPADE's twin probes, Blue and Gold, launched on Nov. 13, 2025, when Mars was on the far side of the Sun. They spent nearly a year in a kidney-bean orbit around a point about a million miles from Earth, waiting for the planets to line up. Blue made its closest approach around 5 a.m. EST on Nov. 7, about 1,000 miles up, and burned for roughly nine minutes. Gold followed at 6 a.m."

This image shows crescent Moon and Earth, taken on the 3rd of June 2026.

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