Moon-Earth Question - Apollo Moon Mission

"Jay Windley" wrote in message ...
"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
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| Of course, if someone has access to a photograph archive, I'm sure there
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Two good ones, but too many clouds for me to identify continents.

You might be able see something in this high resolution version.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

"AstroMike" wrote in message
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| You might be able see something in this high resolution version.
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| http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

Tried; couldn't. Can you make out any continents under the clouds?

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From Jay Windley:
"AstroMike" wrote in message
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| You might be able see something in this high resolution version.
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| http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

Tried; couldn't. Can you make out any continents under the clouds?

No, I can't. But that angle with the LM gives a great feel for just
how high in the lunar sky the Earth was. I expect that there were few
times during EVA that Neil and Buzz ever saw the Earth unless they
deliberately tried.

(Most everyone here is probably aware that the position of the Earth
in the lunar sky stays constant for any particular landing site.
There is *no* earthrise or earthset. It just appears to hang there
permanently, day in day out, year in year out.)


~ CT

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"Jay Windley" wrote in message ...
"Andrew Gray" wrote in message
. ..
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| 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...

Two good ones, but too many clouds for me to identify continents.

You might be able see something in this high resolution version.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...-40-5924HR.jpg

I would guess that the brownish-orangish patch in the upper left of the
visible half-Earth is Australia. But that's just from knowing what time
of day it was.

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