Earthrise
Photograph of Earth taken by astronaut Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the photograph of Earth. For other uses, see Earthrise (disambiguation).
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's 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.