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The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
The immediate priority for the astronauts after landing was the preparation of the Lunar Module to allow it to promptly depart the Moon should an emergency situation arise. These activities meant that it was almost an hour and a quarter before they reached the point on page 5 of the LM Lunar Surface Checklist [ 2 ] that called for the crew to ...
Earthrise, taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
(By the way, don't Google "Apollo 11 images" unless you're prepared to sort through pages of fake moon landing conspiracy websites.) The most famous one is this iconic picture of Aldrin below.
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A total lunar eclipse, with the moon appearing red in color, is seen in Japan on Aug. 28, 2007.
Each display included Moon dust from Apollo 11 and flags, including one of the Soviet Union, taken along by Apollo 11. The rice-sized particles were four small pieces of Moon soil weighing about 50 mg and were enveloped in a clear acrylic button about as big as a United States half-dollar coin. This acrylic button magnified the grains of lunar ...
A stamp from the Soviet Union showing a map based on the Luna 3 images. Mare Desiderii / d ɛ s ɪ ˈ d ɪər i aɪ / (Latin dēsīderiī, the "Sea of Desires") was an area of the Moon named after Luna 3 returned the first pictures of the far side in 1959. [1] Early publications of the Luna 3 image referred to the Mare as Mechta, the Russian ...