Earthrise is a picture of Earth taken from the moon overlooking the moon’s surface taken by the astronaut William Anders from lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Galen Rowell, a nature photographer, addressed the photo as “the most influential environmental shot ever photographed.”
Viewing the small blue Earth against the black backdrop of space, with the barren moonscape in the foreground, tells us how vast the universe is. The Earth is a small planet, orbiting an ordinary star, in an unremarkable galaxy among the billions we can observe. The image prompts emotions of insignificance – Earth is only special because it’s the planet we live on.
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