NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked as a visualization of how the famous Earthrise photo was taken.
What it is
NASA Goddard recreates the Apollo 8 Earthrise moment using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, narrated by Andrew Chaikin and synced with the astronauts' recorded conversation. It marks the flight's 45th anniversary.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2024.
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Recommends akavel · 2024-06 · on “Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash”
Wikipedia links to a nice visualization on youtube of the moments when the photo was taken, synced with the recording of the actual conversation of the Astronauts as recorded by the Apollo 8 equipment: [this video]
Cites ElCapitanMarkla · 2018-01 · on “Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?”
Video of the Earthrise he's talking about in the article - [this video] I just finished Andrew's A Man on the Moon book a couple of weeks ago and I throughly enjoyed it.
Cites matsemann · 2021-04 · on “Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released”
I once saw a video (reenactment but original voices maybe?) of how one of these images was taken. How the earth appeared over the horizon and they scrambled to find a camera or so. Anyone knows which video I'm talking about and could help me find it? Edit: finding out the picture in question had a name, Earthrise, made it easier to find. Here's the video [this video]