B&W photography of the Earth rising behind the Moon, a perspective from space, first captured during the Apollo 8 mission, 1968, by astronaut William 'Bill' Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) The 3-person crew circled the Moon ten times (10x) on that occasion, and the photo was taken during the spacecraft's fourth (4th) pass behind the Moon. Anders then switched to color film and took the even more iconic photo "Earthrise", which was later picked by Life magazine as one of its hundred photos of the century. Reflecting on the photos he took, Anders said: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth." Technical specs: Photo taken highly modified Hasselblad 500 EL camera with an electric drive. The camera had a simple sighting ring, rather than the standard reflex viewfinder, and was loaded with a 70 mm film magazine containing custom Ektachrome film developed by Kodak. The camera was reportedly set for an exposure setting 1/250th of a second at f/11 aperture. Upon return to Earth, the film was processed in Corpus Christi, For the prints, the geometry of the shot was changed: the original image was rotated 95 degrees clockwise to better convey the sense of the Earth rising over the moonscape. A lunar impact crater was named "Anders' Earthrise" after Anders and his three famous photos (this one in black & white, plus the two others in color): it is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. (image credit NASA) via Space--dotcom 2026, with information from Wikipedia
Earthrise, 1968: Bill Anders' first photo of the phenomenon in B&W, during the Apollo 8 mission
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