Photographed Earth First Photo of the Month

Photographed Earth First Photo of the Month

Earth ever photographed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the area around the Moon on August 23, 1966, but unfortunately NASA has never publicly revealed in the photo. But now NASA released the photo shoot to commemorate Earth from the Moon were made ​​47 years ago.

In the photo, as reported by Softpedia on Saturday (24/08/2013), the Earth looks just gray, black, and white. There was absolutely no blue color of the sea or the green of the trees Earth. Shape of the Earth is photographed from the moon as well as the moon phase day 18 or 20. Has passed the half form, and almost form a perfect crescent.

This could be a metaphor if there are people living on the Moon, they will see the shape of the Earth has the same phase as the moon, the new moon, crescent moon, half moon, and the moon is full.

This photo was taken from the position of United Sates territory Moon Lunar Orbiter I. More precisely when the spacecraft is in orbit 16, when it passed the Moon in the back. Photos were released recently has a better quality and more riveting.

The photo is part of a witness to history when space mission to land a man on the Moon is considered impossible in the past.