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Long before they reached the clouds they would see rivers and lakes, mountains and valleys, and networks of city streets. Their cameras would spy the tiny, two-legged creatures that inhabit the cities. They would find that these creatures—humans—are just one of millions of different kinds of living things on the planet. How different, they would think, is this color ful, living Earth from the drab Moon that travels with it through space.

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