File:Plane of Ecliptic.jpg

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English: The Plane of Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which reveals (from right to left) the Moon lit by Earthshine, the Sun's corona rising over the Moon's dark limb, and the planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. The ecliptic plane is defined as the imaginary plane containing the Earth's orbit around the Sun. In the course of a year, the Sun's apparent path through the sky lies in this plane. The planetary bodies of our solar system all tend to lie near this plane, since they were formed from the Sun's spinning, flattened, proto-planetary disk. The snapshot above nicely captures a momentary line-up looking out along this fundamental plane of our solar system.
Source http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960921.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Ecliptic.jpg
Author The Clementine Project, commissioned by NASA

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current06:59, 14 May 2015Thumbnail for version as of 06:59, 14 May 2015640 × 449 (227 KB)Jcpag2012converted from GIF file with 100% quality using GIMP
08:40, 28 July 2006Thumbnail for version as of 08:40, 28 July 2006640 × 449 (197 KB)ConsciousReverted to earlier revision
08:40, 28 July 2006Thumbnail for version as of 08:40, 28 July 2006751 × 528 (58 KB)ConsciousAdrian Pingstone's version from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001014.html
05:33, 30 July 2005Thumbnail for version as of 05:33, 30 July 2005640 × 449 (197 KB)RHorning{{PD-USGov-NASA}} Courtesy NASA Original source: http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1444 Source caption: '''The Plane of the Ecliptic'''<br> The Plane of the Ecliptic is illustrated in this Clementine star tracker camera image which
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