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'You Got A Colour Film, Jim?': NASA

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On December 24, 1968, three people saw this happen firsthand: Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and crew members William A. Anders and James A. Lovell, Jr.

‘Oh my god look at that picture over there. Here’s the Earth coming up,’ says one of the astronauts in a recording Nasa used to reconstruct its 3D video. ‘You got a colour film Jim. Hand me a roll of colour quick.’ 

One astronaut takes a picture with a black-and-white Hasselblad cameras on board the craft – then 58 seconds later, the crew found a colour camera.

 
 
 

‘Earthrise’ is the first-ever colour picture of our planet taken from space – a blue orb hovering over a grey moonscape, captured from Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968.

But a new 3D Nasa visualisation using hi-res moon images reveals how it nearly didn’t happen.
‘You got a colour film, Jim?’ one astronaut calls out – and for nearly a minute, the crew scramble to find a camera for what would become one of the most famous photographs in history.

‘I got it ri – It’s a beautiful shot.’ 

The picture ‘Earthrise’ was on the cover of Life’s book ’100 Photographs that Changed the World,’  in which wilderness photographer Galen Rowell deemed it ‘the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.’

The new visualisation is built using ‘moon maps’ from Nasa’s currrent Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – and allows modern viewers a glimpse of what the astronauts saw in 1968.

 
At the time of the famous photo, Apollo 8 was rounding the moon for the fourth time, traveling in a nearly circular orbit about 68 miles above the moon’s surface at about a mile per second.
‘The spacecraft was pointed down to look at the moon’s surface, because Anders was conducting an extensive photographic survey,’ explains James Rice, an astrogeologist at Goddard. ‘But Lovell needed to perform a navigation sighting, so Borman rolled the spacecraft.’ That’s when Earth abruptly appeared.
 
To recreate this scene, NASA animator Ernie Wright reconstructed the orbit in software, using coordinates from an Apollo 8 mission report and photographs taken by the crew. 
‘Apollo 8 was at 11 degrees south latitude and between 118 and 114 east longitude, with a westward view,’ says Wright. ‘The floor of Pasteur crater is visible in the foreground of the photograph.’
 
Wright rendered the crisp contours of the moonscape using high-resolution topography data from LRO’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, which has provided the most precise and complete maps to date of the moon’s complex, heavily cratered terrain.
 
The Earth shown in the visualization is not an exact duplication of what the astronauts saw but a mosaic of more recent images taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (known as MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite and assembled by NASA’s Visible Earth team.
 
The narration in the visualization comes from the original audio recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts, their commentary on the task at hand interrupted as they react to the sudden sighting of Earth. ‘Oh my God!’ an astronaut calls out. ‘Look at that picture over there!’
 
 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2132664/You-got-colour-film-Jim–Nasa-recording-reveals-astronauts-fluffed-photo-planet-space.html#ixzz1shAmp300



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    • Anonymous

      NASA has no credibility.

    • desertspeaks

      blow up the 2nd pic 500% , then left of the supposed earth is EITHER a UFO or something that should NOT be there!!! it’s large. If you look close at the picture you can even see it without blowing the pic up. there is another object above the horizon of the moon that we shouldn’t be able to see, but its there!

    • Anonymous

      desertspeaks… its a computer generated picture ffs… obviously thinking isnt your strong point.
      whatever you think you see, it was put there by a computer program.

    • HereAmI

      I am not a space scientist, but if the earth is six times bigger than the moon, how come the earth looks only moon-sized in this picture ?
      I have looked at pictures of one of the the surviving LEMs, and it is tiny, so tiny that two fully-kitted astro-nots can only just fit into it. So the implication is that they would have to have been suited up inside the CM by the so-called CM pilot. Once in the LEM, and flying it by standing upright and using dials which have painted-on needles connected to a computer that could have just about run Donkey Kong, they would have had to pee inside those suits, because you can’t get your willie out in zero gravity. The LEM is not even airtight, it looks like it was made by someone in a downtown parking lot. Sorry, but this is all a gigantic hoax. As Hitler said, the bigger the con, the more people will find it hard not to believe it. If I am wrong, explain.

    • HereAmI

      http://www.fountainsofthegreatdeep.com/MrLEM.htm

      Sorry, earth is four times bigger than the moon. But you have a look at the LEM.

    • 5T4RSCREAM

      Yeah and guess what… earth would not look colorful at 240,000 miles out. It would look gray like the moon does… hmmm…

    • Well Hidden

      don’t be daft 5T4RSCREAM,Jupiter looks orange through a telescope at how ever many million miles away,Mars looks red to the naked eye and guess what it’s RED,so going on that basis what color would the earth be as seen from space? earth colored perhaps.

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