Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and 'how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is.'
This picture, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, is one of the most famous images ever photographed in space. It shows the earth rising against the barren lunar landscape on the first human mission to the moon in 1968.
Anders wasn't sure what the proper aperture setting should be to have both the moon and Earth in focus."So," he remembered in 2015,"I machine-gunned it, snapping, I just rotated the F-stop. And as it turned out, one of those pictures was selected by NASA to be the iconic Earthrise picture." Author Francis French has written several books on NASA. He says the photo gave people on Earth a new way to look at their planet.
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