Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Lunar Orbiter Camera at George Eastman House

via Current Affairs post Like No Other View On Earth

"On August 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the moon's orbit, and it forever changed how we see our home planet." 
"Deployed one after the other, five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft produced a medium-detail map of 99 percent of the moon."
"The Lunar Orbiter's mission may have been accomplished long ago, but its first image of the Earth continues to inspire."
http://www.insidescience.org/current-affairs/like-no-other-view-on-earth



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