Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon
Explanation:
Pictured above is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon.
The image was taken in 1966 by
Lunar Orbiter 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the
Image of the Century.
It was taken about two years before the
Apollo 8 crew snapped its
more famous color cousin.
Recently, modern technology has allowed the recovery of
higher resolution images from old data sources such as
Lunar Orbiter
tapes than every before.
Specifically, the
above
image recovery was led by Nancy Evans as part of the
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project.
Images like
that above carry more than aesthetic value -- comparison to
recent high definition images of the
Moon
enables investigations into how the
Moon has been changing.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
