The first image of Earth from space, “Earthrise,” taken on the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve, 1968, is so familiar and famous and ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t know what Earth looked like from the farther reaches of our galaxy.
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News from a Changing Planet – #3
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The first image of Earth from space, “Earthrise,” taken on the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve, 1968, is so familiar and famous and ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t know what Earth looked like from the farther reaches of our galaxy.