The earth can look farther or closer depending on the focal length of the lens. Wide angle lenses make things look farther apart while telephoto lenses compress things. But to be honest something about this photo doesn't seem right.
No. The far side of the moon is lit by the sun when we experience a new moon here on earth. The Earth is small because it's 238,000 miles further than the moon is in this photo. The actual, to-scale distance between the Earth and moon is about 30 Earth diameters.
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Stunning photo from the far side of the Moon *that* was captured by the Chinese.
While we were looking the other way... What a mess.