Earthrise
Original title
William Anders, Apollo 8 (NASA) William Anders
- Institution
- NASA Image and Video Library ↗
- Rights
A NASA photograph, and so a US federal government work, which is not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105).
- Description
- The Earth, half lit and half in shadow, hangs in a black sky above the grey, cratered horizon of the Moon.
- Image
- 1600 × 1600
source file - Catalogue no.
- G-008001
coldlibrary.com/g/008001 - Credit line
- William Anders, Apollo 8 (NASA), Earthrise, 24 December 1968. NASA Image and Video Library, public domain. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/008001
Taken by the crew of Apollo 8 on 24 December 1968, during their fourth orbit of the Moon, and usually credited to William Anders. It is among the first colour photographs a person took of the Earth from as far away as the Moon, and it changed how many people pictured their own planet. It hangs beside a speech that promised the Moon and, on the way, showed people their home.
