William anders earthrise photo from exhibit

This article is about the photograph of Earth. For other uses, see Earthrise (disambiguation).

Photograph of Earth taken from lunar orbit

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.^[1][2][3] Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".^[4]

Anders' color image had been preceded by a crude black-and-white 1966 raster image taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic probe, the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.

Details

Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon.^[4][5] One account suggests that before Anders found a suitable 70 mm color film, mission commander Frank Borman took a black-and-white photograph of the scen