Sunday, June 11, 2023

Earth View (1969) | NASA Apollo 12 Moon Mission

Earth View (1969) | NASA Apollo 12 Moon Mission

Apollo 12 Hasselblad image of the Earth's limb from film magazine 51/R - Orbital Image#AS12-51-7587

Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planet’s limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb.

Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.


Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Project Apollo Archive

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Image Date: November 1969


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