The first image of the Earth from the Moon
2008 November 19
Accord to APOD, this was the very first picture of the Earth taken from the Moon. It was snapped by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966 and has since been restored and digitized thanks to advances in technology and imagery.
The photo above is just one of many coming out of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project which began about 20 years ago and just finished recently. You can see more images of the Moon from the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) at NASA’s website.
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