In article , Peter
Smith wrote:

And the Honeysuckle antenna was *just* at its acquisition angle of about
12deg. So eastern Australia was just rotating into view - the Pacific
would have been the major feature. Also it was July and the moon was about
side-on to the earth wrt the sun, and from memory it was about 10am in
Sydney so the Americas would have been in darkness. The (what do you call
the line between night and day?) would have been in the eastern pacific, or
maybe the western continental US.

Terminator line. It's bit less of a sharp line on Earth, what with the
atmosphere and all, but you can still see an interesting diagonal slant
through the sky from high-altitude flights at the right time :-)

With this reasoning, the prominent feature would have been the Pacific with
Australia visible to the left. What was 'visible' of the americas (Alaska
and north east USA) was in darkness. Hawaii was in full view, but I'm sure
would be difficult to visualise from so far.)

Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
was at least one of the Earth taken during the EVA...

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-Andrew Gray