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What an astounding image. The Apollo astronauts stood at the top of an enormous human pyramid, consisting of something like 450,000 people, that worked together to get them to the moon, using technology just barely capable of doing it when pressed to the absolute outer limits of possibility.
Just beautiful!
Thanks so much for all your great pics!
We should take good care of it!
(No, I am NOT a tree hugger)
We need to keep it clean for our children!
Besides, we have no other place to go!
I’m ashamed to say that I’d never seen, that I recall, this so-famous picture, black and white or otherwise. It is amazing. I’m not even ticked that they didn’t bother to hide a little cutie in the links - again, lol.
With modern digital technology, however, the real first Earthrise image -- originally in black and white -- has now been remastered to have the combined resolution and color of the first three images. Behold!
You'll want to save these identification details from this famous set taken on December 24, 1968, because just as it is written, "Behold."
The featured image is a close-up of the picture that Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders was talking about. Thanks to modern technology and human ingenuity, now we can all see it.
The God of Abraham is never asleep at the switch.
If you actually lived on the moon you’d never see an Earthrise. Earth would be in the same place everyday. You’d see the same familiar 24 hour spin on Earth but with with the Earth changing phases on a monthly basis.