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English: This is an overly perfect lighting and positional arrangement of the Earth-Moon system as seen by an imaginary spacecraft from a little under two lunar distances away from Earth. I tried to make it as realistic as possible by using data from NASA's Visible Earth website along with elevation and color maps of the moon from LRO and other lunar data. The whole thing was composed and rendered using Blender which is entirely open source and free software.

Blue Marble Collection at Visible Earth: visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484

LRO WAC Digital Terrain Model (DTM) (Note: The dropdown at the upper right must be set to 128 px per degree to obtain a simple cylindrical projection) wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr/WAC_GLD100

For the Moon's color, I utilized some LRO imagery along with a color moon map from here, some nice processing work by Jens Meyer, who derived it from Clementine spacecraft data. home.arcor.de/jimpage/earth.html

Note the lunar bump and color maps do not line up perfectly and easily like NASA's Blue Marble set. I did quite a bit of editing to both but the Moon's required a lot of tweaking to align the height map with the color map.