The rise of the Earth "eyes" apparatus Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The photo, titled "Sunrise Earth" is one of the most significant of all the photos that were made by NASA representatives. They took this photo on December 24, 1968 from the Apollo-8 spacecraft. Actually, this has already been written on Habré.

This year, in February, scientists received a series of pictures of the Earth’s rise, pictures taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 1, 2014.
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In general, the device “sees” every day 12 Earth’s rising over the Moon, but since the main specialization of LRO is to take pictures of the surface of the Moon, this device rarely looks at the sky.



The dark stripes in the animated picture are the light filters that help determine the color of the object observed by means of a digital detector (1024 * 1024 pixels). Animation (and static color image) are collected from a series of photos taken at intervals of 2 seconds. The total shooting time is 5 minutes.

Well, this is the same, historical photograph of the rise of the earth over the moon.



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