LRO Brings "Earthrise" to Everyone

Published on Apr 19, 2012 by NASAexplorer

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.

For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo8-retrace.html

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: ‪http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N8yvxCsrBk

SpaceCase7717 wrote:I don"t have much to say about this one except at least that admit this one is fake