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Photograph of Earth taken by astronaut Neb Anders during the Apollo eight mission

Earthrise is a photo of Earth and some of the Moon'southward surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on Dec 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.^{[one] [2] [3]} Nature photographer Galen Rowell described information technology as "the nearly influential environmental photograph ever taken".^[four]

Anders' color image had been preceded by a crude black-and-white 1966 raster image taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic probe, the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.

Details [edit]

The first photograph taken by a human of Earth from the Moon, just earlier Earthrise

The conversation between Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders, during the taking of the Earthrise photograph

Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo viii mission, the offset crewed voyage to orbit the Moon.^{[iv] [v]} Earlier Anders plant a suitable 70 mm color picture, mission commander Frank Borman took a black-and-white photo of the scene, with the Earth'due south terminator touching the horizon. The land mass position and cloud patterns in this image are the same as those of the colour photograph entitled Earthrise.^[6]

The photo was taken from lunar orbit on Dec 24, 1968, 15:twoscore UTC,^{[7] [8]} with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with an electric drive. The photographic camera had a unproblematic sighting band rather than the standard reflex viewfinder and was loaded with a lxx mm film magazine containing custom Ektachrome film developed past Kodak. Immediately prior, Anders had been photographing the lunar surface with a 250 mm lens; the lens was subsequently used for the Earthrise images.^[nine]

Anders: Oh my God! Wait at that picture show over at that place! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, that's pretty.
Borman: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (joking)^[i]
Anders: (laughs) You got a colour picture show, Jim?
Hand me that roll of color quick, would you lot...
Lovell: Oh human, that's great!

AS08-14-2383 (21713574299), from which Earthrise was cropped. The photograph is displayed hither in its original orientation as seen past the crew of Apollo 8. Lunar northward is up.^[x]

There were many images taken at that indicate. The mission audio record establishes several photographs were taken, on Borman'southward orders, with the enthusiastic concurrence of Jim Lovell and Anders. Anders took the kickoff color shot, so Lovell who notes the setting (1/250th of a 2d at f/eleven), followed past Anders with some other very similar shot (AS08-14-2384).

A black and white reproduction of Borman's paradigm appeared in his 1988 autobiography, captioned, "One of the virtually famous pictures in photographic history – taken subsequently I grabbed the photographic camera away from Nib Anders". Borman noted that this was the prototype "the Mail used on a postage, and few photographs have been more frequently reproduced".^{[xi] : 212} The photograph reproduced is not the aforementioned image as the Anders photograph; aside from the orientation, the cloud patterns differ. Borman afterwards recanted this story and agreed that the black and white shot was besides taken by Anders, based on evidence presented by transcript and a video produced past NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio employee, Ernie Wright.^[9]

After Apollo 8's momentous return, NASA technicians – not able to look for normal picture processing – collection four hours from Houston to Corpus Christi Texas to the family-owned R & R Photo Studio & Color Labs, (later known as R & R PhotoTechnics) which at that time was the get-go & just place in Due south Texas with color photograph processing equipment.  Thankfully, R&R likewise had reliable in-business firm negative and Ektachrome 4-hour developing capabilities for the professional 220-format pic used by the astronauts' Hasselblad, making R&R a convenient one-stop-shop for NASA'southward critical demand.

In that location, the late owner Raul Rodriguez took the precious pic which had travelled half a one thousand thousand miles to the behind of the moon and back.  He personally adult the slides, copied them to regular 220 negatives, then exposed and printed the requested photos in quick 8" 10 10" glossy size, one of which would somewhen be known as Earthrise. Raul then returned the slides, negatives & photos to the beholden NASA technicians to blitz dorsum to Houston.

For the Earthrise film, Raul used a German language-made Merz S2A dual-drum negative & slide developer. To print the start Earthrise photo he used an Automobile-focus Chromega D4, three-dial-in-color filter enlarger on a motorized-drive, lightproof, 11" broad, scroll-paper carrier.  The images came to life via Raul's so state-of-the-art, cocky-replenishing, mylar-leader, continuous-feed roll photo paper processor produced by the Nord photo visitor and so based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The stamp upshot reproduces the deject, color, and crater patterns of the Anders picture. Anders is described past Borman every bit holding "a masters degree in nuclear engineering"; Anders was thus tasked equally "the scientific crew member ... besides performing the photography duties that would be so important to the Apollo crew who really landed on the Moon".^{[11] : 193}

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo eight mission in 2018, Anders stated: "It really undercut my religious beliefs. The idea that things rotate around the pope and up there is a big supercomputer wondering whether Baton was a good male child yesterday? It doesn't make any sense. I became a big buddy of [atheist scientist] Richard Dawkins."^[12]

Geometry [edit]

The original paradigm was rotated 95 degrees clockwise to produce the published Earthrise orientation to better convey the sense of the World rising over the moonscape. The published photograph shows Earth rotated clockwise approximately 135° from the typical due north–south-Pole-oriented perspective, with south to the left.

Legacy [edit]

In Life 's 2003 book 100 Photographs that Changed the World, wilderness lensman Galen Rowell called Earthrise "the most influential environmental photo e'er taken".^{[xiii] [fourteen]} Another writer called its appearance the beginning of the environmental movement.^[15] Fifty years to the day subsequently taking the photo, William Anders observed, "Nosotros gear up out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth."^[16]

In Oct 2018, 2 of the craters seen in the photo were named Anders' Earthrise and eight Homeward by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) of the International Astronomical Union. The craters had previously been designated only with letters.^[17]

Joni Mitchell sings on her 1976 song "Refuge of the Roads": "In a highway service station / Over the month of June / Was a photograph of the World / Taken coming back from the Moon / And yous couldn't see a city / On that marbled bowling ball / Or a forest or a highway / Or me hither least of all …"

Postage [edit]

In 1969, the U.Southward. Postal service issued a stamp (Scott# 1371) commemorating the Apollo 8 flight around the Moon. The postage stamp featured a detail (in color) of the Earthrise photograph, and the words, "In the beginning God...", recalling the Apollo eight Genesis reading.^[18]

2013 simulation [edit]

In 2013, in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, NASA issued a video nearly the taking of the photograph.^[19] This figurer-generated visualization used data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which had provided detailed images of the lunar surface that could be matched with those taken every 20 seconds by an automatic photographic camera on Apollo viii. The resulting video, re-creating what the astronauts would have seen (rotated xc degrees clockwise to lucifer the perspective presented in the photo), was synchronized with the recording of the crew'southward conversation as they became the showtime humans to witness an Earthrise. The video included explanatory narration written and read past Andrew Chaikin.^[20] Chaikin writes that all the photographs of the rising World on Apollo viii's fourth orbit were taken by Anders.^[21]

Potential earthrises as seen from the Moon'due south surface [edit]

The World "rose" considering the spacecraft was traveling over the Moon's surface. An earthrise that might be witnessed from the surface of the Moon would be quite unlike moonrises on Earth. Because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, one side of the Moon ever faces toward Earth. Interpretation of this fact would pb one to believe that the World's position is fixed on the lunar sky and no earthrises can occur; however, the Moon librates slightly, which causes the World to describe a Lissajous figure on the sky. This figure fits inside a rectangle fifteen°48' wide and 13°20' loftier (in angular dimensions), while the angular diameter of the Globe equally seen from Moon is only about 2°. This ways that earthrises are visible near the edge of the Earth-observable surface of the Moon (nearly xx% of the surface). Since a full libration cycle takes about 27 days, earthrises are very slow, and it takes about 48 hours for World to clear its diameter.^[22] During the form of the month-long lunar orbit, an observer would additionally witness a succession of "Earth phases", much similar the lunar phases seen from Earth. That is what accounts for the half-illuminated earth, the ashen glow, seen in the photo.

Meet likewise [edit]

• First images of Earth from space
• Earth stage
• Pale Blue Dot
• Stake Orange Dot (Early on Earth)
• The Blue Marble

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Chasing the Moon: Transcript, Part Ii". American Feel. PBS. ten July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
2. ^ Overbye, Dennis (21 December 2018). "Apollo 8's Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World - Half a century agone today, a photograph from the moon helped humans rediscover Earth". The New York Times . Retrieved 24 December 2018.
3. ^ Boulton, Matthew Myer; Heithaus, Joseph (24 December 2018). "We Are All Riders on the Same Planet - Seen from space fifty years ago, Earth appeared as a gift to preserve and cherish. What happened?". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 December 2018.
4. ^ ^{a b} Rowell, Galen. "The Earthrise Photograph". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
5. ^ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (December 14, 2005). "Earthrise". Astronomy Picture of the Twenty-four hour period. NASA.
6. ^ Poole, Robert (2008). Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Globe. New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Printing. ISBN0-300-13766-4.
7. ^ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16670351. Retrieved 2022-04-29 .
8. ^ The mission transcript (day 4, p. 114) shows the shot taken at 03 03 49 (mission time 3d3h49), and the launch was on 1968-12-21 12:51 UTC.
9. ^ ^{a b} Chaikin, Andrew (Jan–Feb 2018). "Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?". Smithsonian.
10. ^ "Earthrise - Apollo eight". NASA on The Eatables. NASA – via Flickr.
11. ^ ^{a b} Borman, Frank (1988). Countdown: An Autobiography . New York, NY, Usa: Morrow (Silver Arrow Books). ISBN0-688-07929-six.
12. ^ Earthrise: how the iconic image inverse the world The Guardian, 2018-12-24.
13. ^ Rowel, Galen. "100 Photographs that Changed the World by Life". The Digital Announcer.
14. ^ Widmer, Ted (24 December 2018). "What Did Plato Think the Earth Looked Similar? - For millenniums, humans have tried to imagine the world in space. Fifty years ago, we finally saw information technology". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 December 2018.
15. ^ Wilford, John Noble (July 14, 2009). "On Hand for Space History, as Superpowers Spar". The New York Times . Retrieved April 24, 2011.
16. ^ Anders, Bill (December 24, 2018). "l Years After 'Earthrise,' a Christmas Eve Message from Its Photographer". Space.com . Retrieved December 24, 2018.
17. ^ Schulz, Rita. "Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8". EurekAlert!. International Astronomical Marriage. Retrieved Oct seven, 2018.
18. ^ "Apollo viii Issue – Postal Bulletin: March 27, 1969". Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Archived from the original on February ii, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
19. ^ NASA. "45th anniversary of the Earthrise Photo". YouTube.
20. ^ Steigerwald, Beak (December xx, 2013). "NASA Releases New Earthrise Simulation Video". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved Dec 22, 2013.
21. ^ Chaikin, Andrew. "Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo eight?". Smithsonian . Retrieved July 27, 2018.
22. ^ Makowiecki, Piotr (1985). Pomyśl zanim odpowiesz (in Polish). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo "Wiedza Powszechna". ISBN83-214-0419-7.

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Earthrise.

• Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary (NASA Goddard, YouTube channel)
• Earthrise: The 45th Ceremony – NASA Goddard webpage with various reconstruction videos
• Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, reconstruction video of the Earthrise photograph

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