Earthrise pic from USA's Apollo 8 taken 50 years ago in 1968 showing earth as blue marble in a background of vast and dark emptiness of space
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Blue marble in largely black (empty) space with stars including our sun, and other planets etc. But it is largely empty space and black. That's what is the physical reality of our earth. Just a blue marble in the solar system, and a tiny speck in space.
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Earthrise: What It's Like to Escape Our Planet | Op-Docs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syQi7Q-ITCE, around half an hour, published by New York Times on 5th Oct. 2018.
From the video description:
What is it like to see the universe in a way no one ever has before? In “Earthrise,” this week’s new Op-Doc, the astronauts of Apollo 8 tell the tale of humanity’s first journey beyond Earth’s orbit. Director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee — who previously directed the Op-Docs “Sanctuaries of Silence,” “Vanishing Island” and “Who Speaks Wukchumni?” — masterfully weaves archival NASA footage and candid interviews with the astronauts themselves to explore what deep space means for the human spirit.
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Earthrise in 4K, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbFIieK-uo, 6 min. 46 secs. published by NASA Goddard on 21st Dec. 2018.
From the youtube video description:
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth.
Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon," sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.
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Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
Half a century ago today, a photograph from the moon helped humans rediscover Earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/science/earthrise-moon-apollo-nasa.html, 21st Dec. 2018
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Blue marble in largely black (empty) space with stars including our sun, and other planets etc. But it is largely empty space and black. That's what is the physical reality of our earth. Just a blue marble in the solar system, and a tiny speck in space.
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Earthrise: What It's Like to Escape Our Planet | Op-Docs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syQi7Q-ITCE, around half an hour, published by New York Times on 5th Oct. 2018.
From the video description:
What is it like to see the universe in a way no one ever has before? In “Earthrise,” this week’s new Op-Doc, the astronauts of Apollo 8 tell the tale of humanity’s first journey beyond Earth’s orbit. Director Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee — who previously directed the Op-Docs “Sanctuaries of Silence,” “Vanishing Island” and “Who Speaks Wukchumni?” — masterfully weaves archival NASA footage and candid interviews with the astronauts themselves to explore what deep space means for the human spirit.
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Earthrise in 4K, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbFIieK-uo, 6 min. 46 secs. published by NASA Goddard on 21st Dec. 2018.
From the youtube video description:
In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth.
Using photo mosaics and elevation data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), this video commemorates Apollo 8's historic flight by recreating the moment when the crew first saw and photographed the Earth rising from behind the Moon. Narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon," sets the scene for a three-minute visualization of the view from both inside and outside the spacecraft accompanied by the onboard audio of the astronauts.
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Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World
Half a century ago today, a photograph from the moon helped humans rediscover Earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/science/earthrise-moon-apollo-nasa.html, 21st Dec. 2018
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