File:Earth-moon.jpg

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English: This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. Earth is about five degrees above the horizon in the photo. The unnamed surface features in the foreground are near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Width of the photographed area at the horizon is about 175 kilometers. On the Earth 240,000 miles away, the sunset terminator bisects Africa.
Date Taken on 24 December 1968
Source NASA: old link, new link
Author Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders
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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Other versions scan by Kipp Teague, cropped version of the scan by Kipp Teague
This image or video was catalogued by one of the centers of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: AS08-14-2383.

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This image or video was catalogued by NASA Headquarters of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 68-HC-870 and Alternate ID: GPN-2001-000009.

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A view of the Earthrise from the moon

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24 December 1968

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current16:57, 22 September 2007Thumbnail for version as of 16:57, 22 September 20073,000 × 2,400 (973 KB)wikimediacommons>Panoptik~commonswikiReverted to version as of 04:22, 15 October 2005