Here is a view looking back at our beautiful blue planet from 57,000 miles away, a clear shot from the tip of one of Orion's solar arrays on the first day in space (click on it to enlarge):
You know what the moon looks like: white and scarred, not blue and swirly white. It's scarred because rocks and meteorites have slammed into it for billions of years, and there was no atmosphere or weather to soften the edges of impact craters.
We have some close photos taken by Orion showing a rougher surface than we may picture:
from Mashable (more lunar surface pics here)
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