About the Moon landing: Why did Earth look bigger from the Moon than the Moon does from Earth?

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NB: The distance between the Earth and the Moon in this image is not to scale (the actual distance is roughly 30 times the diameter of the Earth) but their relative sizes are approximately correct.

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