NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2018–2024.
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NASA Goddard recreates the Apollo 8 Earthrise moment using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, narrated by Andrew Chaikin and synced with the astronauts' recorded conversation. It marks the flight's 45th anniversary.
Linked as a visualization of how the famous Earthrise photo was taken.
“Wikipedia links to a nice visualization on youtube of the moments when the photo was taken”
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Wikipedia links to a nice visualization on youtube of the moments when the photo was taken, synced with the recording of the actual conversation of the Astronauts as recorded by the Apollo 8 equipment: ▶ this video
in “Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash” · View on HN
I once saw a video (reenactment but original voices maybe?) of how one of these images was taken. How the earth appeared over the horizon and they scrambled to find a camera or so. Anyone knows which video I'm talking about and could help me find it? Edit: finding out the picture in question had a name, Earthrise, made it easier to find. Here's the video ▶ this video
in “Earth Restored – 50 restored images of earth released” · View on HN
Video of the Earthrise he's talking about in the article - ▶ this video I just finished Andrew's A Man on the Moon book a couple of weeks ago and I throughly enjoyed it.
in “Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?” · View on HN