The iconic Apollo 8 Earthrise photograph reprocessed from NASA Hasselblad Kodak master scans
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The iconic Apollo 8 Earthrise photograph reprocessed from NASA Hasselblad Kodak master scans
https://i.redd.it/tu5gue9xgpjg1.jpeg
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*NASA Apollo Hasselblad Kodak Raw Color Image Source:*
https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/8/6#AS08-14-2383
I’m so grateful to have had a life.
I think we need a new Earthrise photo, preferably with a full Earth. Let’s get back up there!
It’s unfortunate it’s called an “Earthrise”, because that implies that the Earth became visible due to the moon’s rotation (the same reason that a moonrise on Earth is due to the Earth’s rotation).
Instead, this photo was the result of the space capsule being in orbit around the moon, and going from a position where the moon blocked the view of the Earth, and then emerging from behind the moon to see the Earth.
Yea, sure, crispier than iPhone 20X
Edit:Perfectly clean, no motion blur on moon surface or on Earth while spacecraft is moving 1-2 kilometers/second, yep yep
Edit2: Even the Artemis 1 mission didn’t capture so magnificient picture in 2022 xD
Dumb question: why can we only see “half” of the earth from this pov?
This photograph was taken by William Anders [William Anders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anders?wprov=sfla1)
It’s original orientation has the moon on the right. This is how the astronauts saw it when the came around the moon. NASA later published the image with the moon on the bottom to emphasize the earthrise effect