NASA’s LRO Brings Earthrise to Everyone
April 21, 2012
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. credit: NASA
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Technology Internet, Apollo program, Space exploration, Moon, Unmanned spacecraft, Exploration of the Moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earthrise, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, William Anders, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Apollo 8, Earth, Spacecraft, NASA, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
