NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings "Earthrise" to Everyone
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- Visualizations by:
- Ernie Wright
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On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr. became the first humans to photograph the Earth rising over the moon. Now, the rest of us can see what it was like in a new NASA visualization that draws on richly detailed maps of the moon's surface made from data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter!
The narration in this visualization comes from the original audio recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts. The flight time has been compressed for effect. The Earth in this visualization is not an exact duplication of what the astronauts saw but a mosaic of more recent images taken by Earth-observing satellites. Representative clouds were then layered on top of the mosaic.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Ernie Wright (USRA) [Lead]
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Video editor
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientists
- Gordon Chin (NASA/GSFC)
- James Rice (NASA/GSFC)
- John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
- Noah Petro (NASA/GSFC)
- Richard Vondrak (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Tapes
This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
Transit of Venus
(ID: 2012043)
Monday, June 4, 2012 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Robert Crippen