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Earthrise is a photograph of Earth that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".
Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon. Accounts persisted for years that mission commander Frank Borman took the picture, or at least the first in black-and-white, with the Earth's terminator touching the horizon, before Anders found a suitable 70 mm color film. In fact, Anders took all three photographs. The land mass position and cloud patterns in this image are the same as those of the color photograph entitled Earthrise.
The photograph was taken from lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, 16:39:39.3 UTC, with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with an electric drive. The camera had a simple sighting ring, rather than the standard reflex viewfinder, and was loaded with a 70 mm film magazine containing custom Ektachrome film developed by Kodak. Anders had been photographing the lunar surface with a 250 mm lens, which he then used for the Earthrise images.
Anders: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, that's pretty.
Borman: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (joking)
Anders: (laughs) You got a color film, Jim?
Hand me that roll of color quick, would you...
Lovell: Oh man, that's great!
There were many images taken at that point. The mission audio tape establishes several photographs were taken, on Borman's orders, with the enthusiastic concurrence of Jim Lovell and Anders. After Anders took the first color shot, Lovell noted the setting (1/250th of a second at f/11), and then Anders took a second, similar shot (AS08-14-2384).
A black-and-white reproduction of Borman's image appeared in his 1988 autobiography, captioned, "One of the most famous pictures in photographic history – taken after I grabbed the camera away from Bill Anders". Borman noted that this was the image "the Postal Service used on a stamp, and few photographs have been more frequently reproduced". The photograph reproduced is not the same image as the Anders photograph; aside from the orientation, the cloud patterns differ. Borman later recanted this story and agreed that the black-and-white shot was also taken by Anders, based on evidence presented by transcript and a video produced by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio employee, Ernie Wright.
After Apollo 8's return, NASA technicians – unable to wait for normal film processing – drove four hours from Houston to Corpus Christi, Texas, to the family-owned R&R Photo Studio & Color Labs (later known as R&R PhotoTechnics). It was at the time the first and only place in South Texas with color photo processing equipment, including the rare four-hour Ektachrome slide processing capability for the professional 220-size film used by the astronauts' Hasselblad.[citation needed]
Owner Raul Rodriguez took the film, which had traveled 500,000 miles (800,000 km) to the far side of the Moon and back. He developed the slides and copied them to regular 220 negatives, which he then developed. He exposed and printed the requested photos in quick 8" × 10" glossy size, one of which would eventually be known as Earthrise. Rodriguez then returned the slides, negatives, and photos to the appreciative NASA technicians to rush back to Houston.[citation needed]
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Earthrise is a photograph of Earth that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".
Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon. Accounts persisted for years that mission commander Frank Borman took the picture, or at least the first in black-and-white, with the Earth's terminator touching the horizon, before Anders found a suitable 70 mm color film. In fact, Anders took all three photographs. The land mass position and cloud patterns in this image are the same as those of the color photograph entitled Earthrise.
The photograph was taken from lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, 16:39:39.3 UTC, with a highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL with an electric drive. The camera had a simple sighting ring, rather than the standard reflex viewfinder, and was loaded with a 70 mm film magazine containing custom Ektachrome film developed by Kodak. Anders had been photographing the lunar surface with a 250 mm lens, which he then used for the Earthrise images.
Anders: Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! There's the Earth coming up. Wow, that's pretty.
Borman: Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (joking)
Anders: (laughs) You got a color film, Jim?
Hand me that roll of color quick, would you...
Lovell: Oh man, that's great!
There were many images taken at that point. The mission audio tape establishes several photographs were taken, on Borman's orders, with the enthusiastic concurrence of Jim Lovell and Anders. After Anders took the first color shot, Lovell noted the setting (1/250th of a second at f/11), and then Anders took a second, similar shot (AS08-14-2384).
A black-and-white reproduction of Borman's image appeared in his 1988 autobiography, captioned, "One of the most famous pictures in photographic history – taken after I grabbed the camera away from Bill Anders". Borman noted that this was the image "the Postal Service used on a stamp, and few photographs have been more frequently reproduced". The photograph reproduced is not the same image as the Anders photograph; aside from the orientation, the cloud patterns differ. Borman later recanted this story and agreed that the black-and-white shot was also taken by Anders, based on evidence presented by transcript and a video produced by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio employee, Ernie Wright.
After Apollo 8's return, NASA technicians – unable to wait for normal film processing – drove four hours from Houston to Corpus Christi, Texas, to the family-owned R&R Photo Studio & Color Labs (later known as R&R PhotoTechnics). It was at the time the first and only place in South Texas with color photo processing equipment, including the rare four-hour Ektachrome slide processing capability for the professional 220-size film used by the astronauts' Hasselblad.[citation needed]
Owner Raul Rodriguez took the film, which had traveled 500,000 miles (800,000 km) to the far side of the Moon and back. He developed the slides and copied them to regular 220 negatives, which he then developed. He exposed and printed the requested photos in quick 8" × 10" glossy size, one of which would eventually be known as Earthrise. Rodriguez then returned the slides, negatives, and photos to the appreciative NASA technicians to rush back to Houston.[citation needed]
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