Nasa Used Art to Shape Our Vision of the Future

Post by hypochondria » Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

theoh wrote: post #5

interfixus wrote: post #2

> In Earthrise (1968), the first color photograph of Earth captured by a human being Even mercifully assuming they mean "photograph of the entire Earth", this is clearly nonsense. The Apollo 8 crew got excellent shots of our planet long before they entered lunar orbit. In a linked article on the same site, they claim that "We Only Had One Photograph of the Entire Earth—until Three Years Ago". Please!

Do you have a link to the earlier Apollo 8 images? The second article is about the ability of the DSCOVR satellite to capture full-disc images of the Earth (no mosaicing). "Other images of Earth were created using digital stitching techniques, but for 43 years, until DSCOVR’s launch, it was also the only full-disc image of the Earth in existence." That seems like it could be true, in the absence of counterexamples.