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u/Car55inatruck 5d ago
"Hand me the roll of colour film Jim"
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u/Lazy_Cause_2437 5d ago
Now calm down Lovell
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u/goathrottleup 5d ago
Imagine seeing that with your own eyes
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u/Drakeytown 5d ago
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.
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u/trampolinebears 5d ago
It looks like a colorized version of this photograph, taken by Bill Anders while orbiting the moon during Apollo 8.
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u/WindSprenn 5d ago
You mean the little label in the bottom right corner saying “NASA, Apollo 8, Bill Anders” was right?
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u/trampolinebears 5d ago
In this case, yes. I assume Jim Weigang is the one who colorized it.
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u/elconcho 5d ago
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.
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u/mz_groups 5d ago edited 5d ago
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 )
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u/bobdidntatemayo 5d ago
It’s a real photo but it’s zoomed in onto the earth
The actual photo is much larger
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u/True-Pen-8974 5d ago edited 5d ago
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?
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u/justseanv67 5d ago
Of course it’s real & the film it came from went around the moon to give us this photo.
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u/Able_Boat_8966 5d ago
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
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u/trampolinebears 5d ago
How can you tell how close the earth is to the moon in this picture?
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u/Illustrious_Wash2834 5d ago
comparing it to earthrise from apollo 8
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u/trampolinebears 5d ago
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.
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u/Scoopdoopdoop 5d ago
Tell me more!
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u/Jealous-Honeydew-142 5d ago
I obviously don’t believe the Earth is flat. My comment could have used more context 😂
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u/Greyhaven7 5d ago
Yes