{"id":776128,"date":"2023-12-25T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776128"},"modified":"2023-12-25T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T15:59:51","slug":"apollo-8-earthrise-photo-anniversary-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776128","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 8 Earthrise photo anniversary, December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_389882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389882\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-389882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The iconic \u201cEarthrise\u201d image of Earth appearing over the moon\u2019s horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, taken during a live broadcast with NASA astronauts from the lunar orbit on December 24, 1968. From any one spot on the moon\u2019s near side, Earth doesn\u2019t rise or set, but simply hangs in one spot in the lunar sky. The astronauts saw an Earthrise because they were moving in a spacecraft above the moon\u2019s surface. Image via NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Anniversary of the famous Earthrise photo<\/h3>\n<p>Fifty-five years ago, on Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders, aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft, turned his camera toward Earth and captured a photo that\u2019s now legendary. It was a photo that showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. Almost immediately, people began speaking of this iconic photo as an <em>Earthrise<\/em>. Ultimately, the photo image helped spur the environmental movement.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 lunar calendars are here! Best New Year\u2019s gifts in the universe! Check \u2019em out here.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Scientific Visualization Studio released the video below on the 45th anniversary of the photo now known as \u201cEarthrise.\u201d The position of Apollo 8 and what the astronauts saw through the windows of the spacecraft are recreated and matched with audio from the flight.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dE-vOscpiNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can hear the voices of the Apollo 8 astronauts: Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell. On the astronauts\u2019 fourth orbit of the moon, Borman performed a roll maneuver of their craft, which put them in position to catch the Earth ascending over the lunar horizon. The video relays the exciting moments as they are surprised with the view for the first time and grapple to get color film to capture the momentous photograph, while joking that the image was not part of their schedule.<\/p>\n<h3>An iconic moment in history<\/h3>\n<p>Dan Rather described the iconic image in his book, <em>What Unites Us<\/em>. He explains how it captures the peaceful Earth in the darkness of space and what was really happening on the planet at that moment of history:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This image, so peaceful and yet so breathtaking, was taken at the end of a turbulent year. It was Christmas Eve 1968, but from up there you would never know that a hot war was raging in Vietnam or that a Cold War was dividing Europe. You wouldn\u2019t know of the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Bobby Kennedy. From that distance, people are invisible, and so are cities, countries, and national boundaries. All that separates us ethnically, culturally, politically, and spiritually is absent from the image. What we see is one fragile planet making its way across the vastness of space.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the click of a shutter, our spaceship Earth and everyone aboard was captured by the first humans to venture beyond the bounds of Earth\u2019s gravity and give us a better picture of our home.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what spacecraft reentry looks like. <\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Air Force ALOTS (Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System) camera mounted on a KC-135A aircraft flown at 40,000 ft altitude captured this photo of Apollo 8 reentering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere on this day in 1968. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UzLosEElbK\">pic.twitter.com\/UzLosEElbK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Air and Space Museum (@airandspace) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/airandspace\/status\/1343274707253161984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s Apollo 8 entering our atmosphere on December 27, 1968.<\/p>\n<h3>And 55 years later another iconic sight<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_421146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-421146\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/upl\/2022\/11\/Artemis-at-farthest-distance-from-Earth-e1669717833545.jpg\" alt=\"Sunlit front end of space capsule labeled NASA, with tiny Earth and moon in distance.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-421146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/upl\/2022\/11\/Artemis-at-farthest-distance-from-Earth-e1669717833545.jpg 800w, https:\/\/earthsky.org\/upl\/2022\/11\/Artemis-at-farthest-distance-from-Earth-e1669717833545-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/earthsky.org\/upl\/2022\/11\/Artemis-at-farthest-distance-from-Earth-e1669717833545-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-421146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On November 28, 2022, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance \u2013 268,563 miles (432,210 km) \u2013 from the Earth and moon. At that point, Orion had traveled farther than any other spacecraft built for humans, and\u00a0farther than any Apollo mission some 50 years ago.\u00a0See the moon and Earth in the upper right? Image via NASA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bottom line: Astronaut William Anders took this iconic photo of Earthrise on the fourth orbit of the moon aboard Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more details about the NASA visualization.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cp-load-after-post\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-author\">\n<h4>Deborah Byrd<\/h4>\n<p>                    View Articles\n                  <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-tags\">\n<h6 data-udy-fe=\"text_7c58270d\">About the Author:<\/h6>\n<p>Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she won the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. &#8220;Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-author\">\n<h4>Kelly Kizer Whitt<\/h4>\n<p>                    View Articles\n                  <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-tags\">\n<h6 data-udy-fe=\"text_7c58270d\">About the Author:<\/h6>\n<p>Kelly Kizer Whitt has been a science writer specializing in astronomy for more than two decades. She began her career at Astronomy Magazine, and she has made regular contributions to AstronomyToday and the Sierra Club, among other outlets. Her children\u2019s picture book, Solar System Forecast, was published in 2012. She has also written a young adult dystopian novel titled A Different Sky. When she is not reading or writing about astronomy and staring up at the stars, she enjoys traveling to the national parks, creating crossword puzzles, running, tennis, and paddleboarding. Kelly lives in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/apollo-8-earthrise-december-24-1968-new-simulation\/?rand=772280\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic \u201cEarthrise\u201d image of Earth appearing over the moon\u2019s horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, taken during a live broadcast with NASA astronauts from the lunar orbit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}