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Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.The visualization draws on numerous historical sources, including the actual cloud pattern on Earth from the ESSA-7 satellite and dozens of photographs taken by Apollo 8, and it reveals new, historically significant information about the Earthrise photographs. It has not been widely known, for example, that the spacecraft was rolling when the photos were taken, and that it was this roll that brought the Earth into view. The visualization establishes the precise timing of the roll and, for the first time ever, identifies which window each photograph was taken from.The key to the new work is a set of vertical stereo photographs taken by a camera mounted in the Command Module's rendezvous window and pointing straight down onto the lunar surface. It automatically photographed the surface every 20 seconds. By registering each photograph to a model of the terrain based on LRO data, the orientation of the spacecraft can be precisely determined.Andrew Chaikin's article Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? appeared in the January, 2018 issue of Smithsonian magazine. It includes the story of the making of this visualization.A Google Hangout discussion of this visualization between Ernie Wright (creator of the visualization), Andrew Chaikin, John Keller (LRO project scientist), and Aries Keck (NASA media specialist) was held on December 20, 2013. A replay of that hangout is available here.Ernie Wright presented a talk about the making of this animation at the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver. 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Constantly shadowed areas near the poles are hard to photograph but easier to measure with altimetry, while several of the Apollo landing sites, all relatively near the equator, have been imaged at resolutions as high as 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel.The shape of the terrain in this animation is based primarily on data from LRO's laser altimeter (LOLA), supplemented by stereo image data from its wide angle camera (LROC WAC) and from Japan's Kaguya mission. The global surface color is from Clementine. || ", "release_date": "2011-10-27T06:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-02-02T22:03:55.794676-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 482631, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003874/tour.07200.jpg", "filename": "tour.07200.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The viewer flies over the lunar terrain, coming in for close looks at a variety of interesting sites. Color coded elevation highlights the terrain of some sites. 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However, thanks to new data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can now see into these dark craters in incredible detail. || ", "release_date": "2013-03-06T11:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2019-06-06T17:00:05-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 467534, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011218/G2013-007_Perma_Shadows_MASTER_youtube_hq00502_print.jpg", "filename": "G2013-007_Perma_Shadows_MASTER_youtube_hq00502_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Deep in the craters of the Moon's south pole lurk permanently shadowed regions: areas that have not seen sunlight in over two billion years. 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By combining years of LEND data, scientists see mounting evidence of hydrogen-rich areas near the Moon’s south pole, strongly suggesting the presence of frozen water. || ", "release_date": "2013-06-03T11:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2019-06-06T17:05:46-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 464774, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011200/a011292/G2013-013_LEND_Water_MASTER_youtube_hq01459_print.jpg", "filename": "G2013-013_LEND_Water_MASTER_youtube_hq01459_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "LRO’s Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) has accumulated new evidence of water at the south pole of the Moon. 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The part of the Earth visible in this animation is the part where the lunar eclipse can be seen. || ", "release_date": "2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:00.549362-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 456601, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004157/eclipse.0570.jpg", "filename": "eclipse.0570.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "With the lunar horizon in the foreground, the Earth passes in front of the Sun, revealing the red ring of sunrises and sunsets along the limb of the Earth. The \"No Stars\" frames omit the starry background and include an alpha channel.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } } }, { "id": 406624, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 4158, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4158/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Lunar Eclipses and the Moon's Orbit", "description": "The animations on this page illustrate the Moon’s orbit and its role in lunar and solar eclipses. A solar eclipse happens when the Moon’s shadow falls on the Earth, while a lunar eclipse happens when the Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon.Eclipses can only happen at New and Full Moon, when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are all in a straight line. But they don’t happen every New and Full Moon, because the Moon’s orbit is tilted by about 5 degrees. As the Earth and Moon travel around the Sun, the tilt of the Moon’s orbit changes direction relative to the Sun.This is analogous to the way the tilt of the Earth causes seasons. Just like winter and summer happen every six months, eclipses tend to occur on a roughly six-month cycle.Unlike most eclipse shadow diagrams, the first three animations here don’t greatly exaggerate the scale of the Earth and Moon. They are only 2x their true scale. The view is exactly perpendicular to the Earth-Sun line. The angle of the Moon’s orbital tilt and the “tapering” of the shadows are both accurate. The orbit happens to be calculated for the months preceding the April 15, 2014 total lunar eclipse. || ", "release_date": "2014-04-10T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:51:00.773818-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 456617, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004100/a004158/tilt.1200_preview.jpg", "filename": "tilt.1200_preview.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Initially viewed from overhead, the Moon orbits the Earth until it appears to enter the Earth's shadow. The view then rotates down into the ecliptic plane, showing that the tilt of the Moon's orbit causes it to miss the Earth's shadow. 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