NASA | LRO Brings "Earthrise" to Everyone

On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a new NASA visualization that draws on richly detailed maps of the moon's surface made from data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter!
The narration in this visualization comes from the original audio recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts. The flight time has been compressed for effect. The Earth in this visualization is not an exact duplication of what the astronauts saw but a mosaic of more recent images taken by Earth-observing satellites. Representative clouds were then layered on top of the mosaic.

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[godsgeew]

the earth is only unique in our solar system

[Marcelle George]

Earth is so unique and beautiful . 

[AIGAIOSPAN]

so fake.....

[PurplePetal04]

I don't understand why they couldn't just use the actual footage the astronaughts took instead of this.

[endimion17]

The probe rotates around the Moon, obviously.

[bobcrunch]

They are in an orbiting spacecraft. They are moving relative to the moon. If they were standing on the surface of the moon, the earth wouldn't rise.

[Rob260259]

A hoax would have been uncovered decades ago by people who know what they are talking about, not some internet heroes.

Get over it. We did land on the Moon. Six times.

[francissBs]

wea falsa

[ArenaEZ]

watch the myth busters , they prove you wrong, so badly that you will shit in your diaper .

[gonira]

i wish i could punch these stupid conspiracy theorists on the face myself.

there's more than enough evidence of the moon landing, like the mirrors installed on the moon by the mission and still used in distance measurings by nasa today. please, have more respect to this brave men and their historic achievement. stop trying to pretend you're smarter than everyone. it's quite the opposite.

beautiful pictures.

[TheMusketITuckedIt]

I wish Buzz Aldrin would come over your house and punch you in the head for saying something so stupid.