2 Views of the Same Space

Here are two looks across the gulf between the Earth and our Moon. From the perspective of our day-to-day experience, the 240,000 miles separating these two worlds is an enormous distance (I have "only" 90,000 miles on my pickup truck), but from an interstellar perspective, it is a tiny distance. This is our galactic back yard. The views are from the space shuttle in Earth orbit, looking across at the Moon, and from the Japanese lunar spacecraft Kayuga, at the Moon, looking back at Earth.