Earthrise "eyes" of the machine Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Picture called "Earthrise" is one of the most significant of all the photos that did representatives of NASA. Make this photo December 24, 1968 on board the ship "Apollo 8". In fact, this has already been contacted Habré.

This year, in February, scientists have received a number of shots Earthrise, pictures taken apparatus Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 1 February 2014.

In general, the machine every day "sees" 12 Earthrise over the moon, but since the main specialization LRO - obtaining images of the lunar surface, in the "sky" this device looks rare.



Dark streaks on the animated picture - it filters that help determine the color observed by цифрового detector (1024 * 1024 pixels) of the object. Animation (and static color image) collected from a series of photographs taken at intervals of 2 seconds. The total recording time - 5 minutes.

Well, it is - the same historical photo Earthrise over the moon.



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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/222831/