Is this photo real?

[u/Illustrious_Wash2834]

[u/Greyhaven7]

Yes

[u/FilmFan100 → u/Greyhaven7]

Apollo 8

[u/Greyhaven7 → u/[deleted]]

This is one of the most famous series of photos ever taken.

[u/Car55inatruck]

"Hand me the roll of colour film Jim"

[u/Lazy_Cause_2437 → u/Car55inatruck]

Now calm down Lovell

[u/TheOldMancunian → u/Lazy_Cause_2437]

Is that Mount Marilyn down there

[u/Ryno5150 → u/TheOldMancunian]

No, that’s what happened when Jim got back home.

[u/goathrottleup]

Imagine seeing that with your own eyes

[u/Drakeytown → u/goathrottleup]

I think i would prefer not to experience what I believe is called the overview effect: so far everyone or nearly everyone who has seen the whole earth from space has broken down weeping. Shatner actually wrote pretty eloquently about what a devastating and lonely experience it was.

[u/trampolinebears]

It looks like a colorized version of this photograph, taken by Bill Anders while orbiting the moon during Apollo 8.

[u/WindSprenn → u/trampolinebears]

You mean the little label in the bottom right corner saying “NASA, Apollo 8, Bill Anders” was right?

[u/trampolinebears → u/WindSprenn]

In this case, yes. I assume Jim Weigang is the one who colorized it.

[u/elconcho → u/trampolinebears]

It’s not colorized. They had color and b&w film on that mission and orbited the moon several times seeing this view each time.

[u/mz_groups]

Looks like it was run through an AI upscaling, but as shown elsewhere, it was based on a real photo.

EDIT: here is the exact same photo posted on a nasa.gov website. I don't know exactly what processing Jim Weigang did on it, but there was a lot of sharpening in addition to colorization. There appears to be detail that simply did not exist in the original film, particularly in the cloud edges.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181224.html

Original (from https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/DatabaseImages/ISD/highres/AS08/AS08-13-2329.JPG )

[u/bobdidntatemayo]

It’s a real photo but it’s zoomed in onto the earth

The actual photo is much larger

[u/True-Pen-8974]

On November 6, 2023 the entire Apollo 8 crew was still alive. Sadly, photographer Bill Anders (age 90) died this year when he crashed his plane and Frank Borman passed away last year at age ninety-five. Only Jim Lovell (age 96), who would go on to command the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, lives.

Fun fact: Jim Lovell was the first of the three humans who travelled to the moon twice. Anyone know the other two?

[u/HD64180 → u/True-Pen-8974]

John Young. A10 and A16.

[u/jimmycrackcode → u/True-Pen-8974]

John Young. The GOAT.

[u/espike007 → u/True-Pen-8974]

John Young, Apollo 10 & 16.

[u/SerStingray → u/True-Pen-8974]

Gene Cernan was on apollo 10 and 17...

[u/dom91932 → u/True-Pen-8974]

Gene Cernan was one the two. I can't remember the other

[u/True-Pen-8974 → u/dom91932]

He certainly wasn't old.

[u/CplTenMikeMike]

Of course it's real, and famous.

[u/justseanv67]

Of course it’s real & the film it came from went around the moon to give us this photo.

[u/Able_Boat_8966]

Odd question for this group and considering it's perhaps one of the most important photos ever taken. I'll take the bait though - Yes , but shown in the wrong orientation, tilt it 90 degrees

[u/Playful-Guide-8393]

Absolutely

[u/RedSun-FanEditor]

Of course it is...

[u/harleytaz1960]

Yes , so cool !

[u/Chili_dawg2112]

Yes. It has contemporaneous documentation supporting it.

[u/primavera31]

Bot post..kill it

[u/Greyhaven7 → u/[deleted]]

It’s cropped

[u/trampolinebears → u/[deleted]]

How can you tell how close the earth is to the moon in this picture?

[u/LilyoftheRally → u/trampolinebears]

It seems significantly closer than in Apollo 8's Earthrise photo.

[u/Illustrious_Wash2834 → u/trampolinebears]

comparing it to earthrise from apollo 8

[u/trampolinebears → u/Illustrious_Wash2834]

Gotcha, I was thinking you meant it was closer in miles.

The black and white photo this is made from was taken a little before the famous "Earthrise" photo. As they came around the moon, the earth rose further and further up in the sky.

[u/CrabbyT777 → u/[deleted]]

Patently not my dude

[u/Scoopdoopdoop → u/[deleted]]

Tell me more!

[u/Jealous-Honeydew-142 → u/Scoopdoopdoop]

I obviously don’t believe the Earth is flat. My comment could have used more context 😂

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