The moon is not a dry desolate piece of rock orbiting earth as we have been led to believe for the past forty years, says Jose Escamilla. Instead, the moon appears to be a small planet full of color, water, clouds and perhaps civilizations existing there. The new documentary “Moon Rising” presents the moon in its “full natural color” for the first time in human history.

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