Earthrise Changed The Way People Saw The World
This revolutionary picture was taken on Christmas-eve of 1968. It is a photograph of the Earth as well as some of the Moon’s surface taken from lunar orbit by astronaut Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. Galen Rowell, a nature photographer, declared it is “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken” because it was something that most people had never seen before and helped put our place in the universe into perspective. Before this color photo was released, mission commander Frank Borman took a black-and-white picture of the scene until William Anders brought out the color film.
