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AS08-16-2593 remastered
1968-12-22
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- https://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/8/Hasselblad%20500EL%2070%20mm#AS08-16-2593 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/36019/earth-viewed-by-apollo-8
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
One of the first images taken by humans of the whole Earth. Photographed by the crew of Apollo 8 (probably by Bill Anders) the photo shows the Earth at a distance of about 30,000 km. North is at the top, with South America visible at the covering the bottom half center, with Africa entering into shadow. North America is at the top left.
