Published 18:52 IST, July 10th 2020
Moonwalker shares stunning photo of Earth taken from Apollo 11 spacecraft in 1969
Featuring the area of Smyth's Sea on the nearside, picture shows the moon terrain as the Earth is seen rising above the moon's horizon as Moonwalker explored.
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A spectacular im of Earth captured from moon from Apollo 11 craft in 1969 has stunned internet. Shared on Twitter by lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin Buzz, second ever to land on moon in historic Apollo mission with Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, im depicts limb of moon representing Earth on horizon which was shot on July 20. Buzz captioned #thursdaythrowback im as “ view of home never gets old”. With more than 14,000 likes, imry has captured attention of internet users.
Featuring area of Smyth's Sea on nearside, picture shows moon terrain as Earth is seen rising above moon's horizon. At 85 degrees east longitude and 3 degrees rth latitude as coordinates of center of terrain, module pilot h landed in Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" with commander Edwin E. Aldrin Jr and astronaut Armstrong to explore Sea of Tranquility region of moon as a part of NASA’s mission. More than 50 years ago, NASA’s Apollo launched its first journey to moon landing on lunar module (LM) dubbed "Eagle".
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Tracking journey:
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Inspiring and beautiful
Internet poured a slew of reaction, as users shared ar perspective of Earth Shot from Apollo mission. “What do you do after you have walked on moon? Seriously, what goals do you set?” inquired one. “I cant imagine what that was like in person.,” said ar. “Dr. Aldrin, thank you very much for this picture. It's inspiring and beautiful at same time. Have you ever been afraid of t being able to come home again?” asked third. Users also shared information about NASA’s project Blue Marble, 2012. One wrote, “What's amazing is how unique our blue liquid oceanic Earth is. Of course, re must be ors. In our own solar system, we have outer moons and a planet, Pluto, covered in FROZEN water. Awaiting Goldilocks.”
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(All Ims Credit: NASA/AP)
18:52 IST, July 10th 2020