Quick facts
What is it: The first image in the world of the land from the moon
Where is: The orbit of the moon, about 239,000 miles (385,000 km) from Earth
When she was shared: August 23, 2025 (originally took August 23, 1966)
The first human view of the Earth did not come from the moon to August 23, 1966, when this loved, black and white image showed our planet as a lunar horizon, and it appears to be rising with the transmission of the spacecraft that reaches the camera in orbit.
At that time, it was a prominent image – and it was completely unplanned, according to Nassa. The first view of the Earth came from the moon from the orbit of NASA, which moved the image to a station in Robledo de Chavila near Madrid.
Lunar Orbiter 1, the first American spacecraft revolving around the moon, launched on the Cape Canaver, Florida, Florida, on August 10, 1966, and entered the moon orbit after four days. It was on the mission of maps, designed to photograph safe landing sites that are likely to be safe on the moon for surveying and NASA operations, according to NASA. Although the camera system in the spacecraft was not very detailed, it took more detailed views of the moon orbit than possible than the Earth to the largest telescopes at that time.
The Lunar Orbiter 1 camera, which was manufactured by Eastman Kodak, appeared, an automatic system that developed an open movie, wipe the photos, and transferred to the ground. The camera was originally developed by the National Reconciliation Office and was transferred to satellites spying during the Cold War launched by the United States in the 1960s, according to NASA.
The orbit of the moon 1 revolves around the moon for 76 days until it was deliberately shattered in the moon on October 29, 1966.
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Lunar Orbiter 1 camera took pictures of nine possible APOLLO and seven backup sites. The Earth was filmed as a crescent on August 23, 1966, at 16:35 GMT, when the spacecraft was in its sixteenth orbit, moments before it moved to the darkness of the distant side of the moon.
After more than two years, on the eve of Christmas in 1968, Bill Anders, a lunar unit pilot in Apollo 8, the first mission of the moon, picked up the iconic.Clarification of the Earth“The image. This colorful color image acquired the attention of humanity as a cultural teacher, but it was the image of the very similar Lunar Opter 1 as a crescent that rises behind the moon, which was captured more than two years ago, and this was the technical first.
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