Posted on 06/30/2024 12:25:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: About 12 seconds into this video, something unusual happens. The Earth begins to rise. Never seen by humans before, the rise of the Earth over the limb of the Moon occurred about 55.5 years ago and surprised and amazed the crew of Apollo 8. The crew immediately scrambled to take still images of the stunning vista caused by Apollo 8's orbit around the Moon. The featured video is a modern reconstruction of the event as it would have looked were it recorded with a modern movie camera. The colorful orb of our Earth stood out as a familiar icon rising above a distant and unfamiliar moonscape, the whole scene the conceptual reverse of a more familiar moonrise as seen from Earth. To many, the scene also spoke about the unity of humanity: that big blue marble -- that's us -- we all live there. The two-minute video is not time-lapse -- this is the real speed of the Earth rising through the windows of Apollo 8. Seven months and three missions later, Apollo 11 astronauts would not only circle Earth's moon, but land on it.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
smh
I would be impressed had they included the starfield background for this ‘modern’ video...
Why are you shaking your head? Please explain your statement.
I was looking for the terrain of the Moon to change as the craft orbited.
Someday it will be done right, with the star field, night(earth)side city lights, and lightning, proper cloud motion, accurate high rez lunar terrain flyby, etc...
Add the ability to zoom in on all our satellites, attach your viewpoint to anything and scroll back and forth in time for extra points.
...it will quickly become the heart of a game engine.
Unless it become “Google Space” first.
Music provided by Man in the Moon.
He has a lot of time to practice.
Of course the Earth never rises on the moon. It was only because they were in orbit. An actual person stationed on the Moon would see the Earth in the same place everyday. A Lunar day is a month long. He would also see the Earth turn and go through phases as well.
My comment is rather clear, but I’ll elaborate, just for you, because I am a geek at heart and this did more than ‘smh’ (it angered me):
They ‘reconstructed’ a view of an event witnessed by human eyes from the perspective of a film compromised by exposure characteristics which blotted out the starfield clearly visible to the astronauts.
The reconstruction ought to have been from human eyes.
It was a grossly pathetic result. Lazy, in fact.
Absolutely fascinating!
I can see where you’re coming from but can’t see it as something to get upset about. They state that their goal was to reconstruct the event as it would have looked were it recorded with a modern movie camera, not as how it would have looked to the astronauts.
Um, no. APOD writers LIED. From the source here
Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view...and here (the original):
By the fall of 2013 Wright and colleague Dan Gallagher had produced a new video, synchronized with the onboard voice tape. It reconstructed the historic moment in a way no one except the astronauts had previously experienced.Regardless, the geek in me labels the video lazy. They should have included the star field from the crew perspective, not a damn camera.
Additionally, this lazy, misattributed crap is par for the course. I remind you that this is NASA, the same group responsible for this:
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most prevalent greenhouse gas driving global climate change. However, its increase in the atmosphere would be even more rapid without land and ocean carbon sinks, which collectively absorb about half of human emissions every year. Advanced computer modeling techniques in NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office allow us to disentangle the influences of sources and sinks and to better understand where carbon is coming from and going to.
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