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This photo of Earth was taken by a human
AS15-99-13487
This striking photograph of Earth was captured by NASA Astronaut Alfred Worden as Apollo 15 was 113,437 nautical miles [210,085 km] from Earth during the homeward journey from the Moon in August 1971. With the Sun very near the camera’s field of view in front of the spacecraft returning to Earth, the Home Planet appears as a very thin crescent increasing in size, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare. At the same moment the astronauts could see a full Moon receding behind them. Worden used the Hasselblad camera fitted with a special UV transmitting 105mm lens and a particular 70mm film magazine (99/N) containing spectroscopic film for ultraviolet photographs.
This photo of Earth was taken by a human
AS15-99-13487
This striking photograph of Earth was captured by NASA Astronaut Alfred Worden as Apollo 15 was 113,437 nautical miles [210,085 km] from Earth during the homeward journey from the Moon in August 1971. With the Sun very near the camera’s field of view in front of the spacecraft returning to Earth, the Home Planet appears as a very thin crescent increasing in size, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare. At the same moment the astronauts could see a full Moon receding behind them. Worden used the Hasselblad camera fitted with a special UV transmitting 105mm lens and a particular 70mm film magazine (99/N) containing spectroscopic film for ultraviolet photographs.