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Earthlight is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1955. It is an expansion to novel length of a short story that he had published four years earlier. ==Overview== Earthlight is a science fiction adventure story set on the Moon, where a government agent is looking for a suspected spy at a major observatory on th...
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[astronomy] Earthlight is the partial illumination of the dark portion of the moon`s surface by light reflected from the Earth and from the Earth`s airglow. It is also known as Earthshine (see Planetshine), the Moon`s ashen glow, or the old Moon in the new Moon`s arms. This phenomenon is best observed from just after new moon, when the moon...
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[short story] `Earthlight` is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke first published in the August 1951 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories. It was later expanded into the novel Earthlight in 1955. ==Plot summary== The short story details two astronomers caught outside their base on the Moon as a battle rages between the forces of ...
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• (n.) The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon`s disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or `the old moon in the arms of the new.`
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Earth'light` noun (Astron.) The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or 'the old moon in the arms of the new.'
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