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Welcome to the double planet

5 October 2003

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The Earth-Moon system is plainly a double planet when seen from far out in space

Credits: Illustration by AOES Medialab, ESA 2002

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By the middle of this century the Moon is likely to be a manned base, not only for science but for mining and engineering too - and a way-station for more distant spaceflight.

Credits: Image courtesy Pat Rawlings/SAIC/NASA JSC --Mark Dowman andMike Stovall/Eagle Engineering,Inc ./ NASA JSC --Clementine/BMDO/NSSDC --LunaCorp/Robotics Institute

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A shocking birth for the Moon? SMART-1's researchers will examine the theory that our companion in space was made from the debris of a monstrous collision thousands of millions of years ago - between the newly born Earth and a smaller planet.

Credits: AOES Medialab, ESA 2002

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