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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2024 June 30   
      
                         Earthrise: A Video Reconstruction   
                      Video Credit: NASA, SVS, Apollo 8 Crew;   
       Lead Animator: Ernie Wright; (USRA); Music: C Major Prelude by Johann   
                                  Sebastian Bach   
      
      Explanation: About 12 seconds into this video, something unusual   
      happens. The Earth begins to rise. Never seen by humans before, the   
      rise of the Earth over the limb of the Moon occurred about 55.5 years   
      ago and surprised and amazed the crew of Apollo 8. The crew immediately   
      scrambled to take still images of the stunning vista caused by Apollo   
      8's orbit around the Moon. The featured video is a modern   
      reconstruction of the event as it would have looked were it recorded   
      with a modern movie camera. The colorful orb of our Earth stood out as   
      a familiar icon rising above a distant and unfamiliar moonscape, the   
      whole scene the conceptual reverse of a more familiar moonrise as seen   
      from Earth. To many, the scene also spoke about the unity of humanity:   
      that big blue marble -- that's us -- we all live there. The two-minute   
      video is not time-lapse -- this is the real speed of the Earth rising   
      through the windows of Apollo 8. Seven months and three missions later,   
      Apollo 11 astronauts would not only circle Earth's moon, but land on   
      it.   
      
        NASA Administrator Remembers Earthrise Photographer William Anders   
                          Tomorrow's picture: time spiral   
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          Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)   
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                                & Michigan Tech. U.   
      
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