Yes, it is possible, provided you're on the right side of the Moon (the Apollo astronauts were). It looks 16 times as big (4 times as wide and 4 times as high). The oceans appear dark green and the land appears lighter green mixed with some gray, brown and white (mountains, desert and snow). There are a lot of clouds; the Earth doesn't look all clear like it does on Google Earth.
2006-08-24 03:32:35
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answered by Anonymous
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One side of the moon always faces us. So you know you'd have to be on that near side of the moon to see Earth at all. From any part of the moon's near side, Earth would always be in your sky. It would wax and wane, just as the moon does as seen from our world.
Also remember that the Earth and moon are both worlds in space, and they're always half illuminated by the sun. Both have a "day" side and a "night" side. That's why we see phases of the moon. When you see a crescent moon, for example, you're seeing a slim fraction of the moon's dayside . . . while its night side might or might not be visible against the backness of space.
So, to answer your question, moon phases seen from Earth — and Earth phases seen from the moon — are always the reverse of each other. When we see a nearly full moon, any moon people would see a slim crescent Earth. And the next time you see a crescent moon from Earth, you can imagine seeing a nearly full Earth hanging in the lunar sky.
http://www.earthsky.com/shows/show.php?date=20060402
2006-08-24 03:41:04
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answered by Yellow ♥ 3
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Yes - you can. But you need to be on the right side of the moon (the side shows the hare on the moon. haha)
The earth will appear four times bigger than the moon appears to us from earth. As seen from such photographs, its usually blue with masses of brown/green (land) and streaks of white (clouds)
2006-08-24 03:37:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, you can see the earth from the lunar surface.
What does it look like? Well next time you look at the moon, imagine seeing the earth at that same size.
Kinda cool, huh?
2006-08-24 03:32:58
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answered by Oklahoman 6
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What do you have in mind sir, to draw a portrait of mother earth as seen by a moon?!
2006-08-24 03:46:12
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answered by Abhishek Joshi 5
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You can absolutely see it, if you are on the correct side of the moon (the 'light' side). Many incredibly pictures of the earth from the moon's surface and orbit during the apollo program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
2006-08-24 03:35:33
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answered by Ghmorris6348D 2
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just how we see the moon from earth,you will see the earth in same way except whereas you see blackmarks/holes on moon the earth will look greenish and bluish whereever there is greenery or the sea
2006-08-24 04:47:18
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answered by toliagoldstar 2
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
The above link takes you to a photo taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, showing the Earth rising above the lunar surface.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?search=Earthrise&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&search_type=http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=ArHuWWQLYZHpn7C9VvsGSzgazKIX/SIG=111gjvvgj/*-http://search.yahoo.com/search&p=Earthrise&fr2=tab-web
This link was just the result of an image search for "Earthrise." I got over 7,000 results. Many of them are probably doctored or simply artwork, but a lot are genuine photos taken of Earth from the Moon.
2006-08-24 03:35:18
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answered by knivetsil 2
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obviously , if we can c moon from here then we would b certainly able 2 see moon from here.it would look like a blue ball as u would have already read in Ur textbooks.
2006-08-24 03:38:41
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answered by cutey 2
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yes u can see. it will look just like it looks on a books cover page
2006-08-24 04:08:15
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answered by Anonymous
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