Earthrise 1: Historic Image Remastered
			
		
		
		
			"Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! 
Here's the Earth coming up. Wow is that pretty!"
Soon after 
that pronouncement, 50 years ago today, 
one of the most famous images ever taken 
was snapped from the orbit of 
the Moon.
Now known as 
"Earthrise", 
the iconic image shows the Earth rising above the limb of the Moon, as 
taken by the crew of 
Apollo 8. 
But the well-known 
Earthrise image was actually the 
 second  image taken of the 
Earth rising above the lunar limb -- 
it was just the first in color. 
With modern digital technology, however, 
the real first Earthrise image -- originally in black and white -- has 
now been remastered to have the combined resolution and color of the 
first 
three 
images. 
Behold! The 
featured image 
is a close-up of the picture that Apollo 8 astronaut 
Bill Anders was 
talking about.
Thanks to modern technology and 
human ingenuity, 
now we can all see it.
(Historical note: A 
different historic black & white image of the Earth setting behind the lunar limb was taken by the robotic 
Lunar Orbiter 1 two years earlier.)