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The mystery behind who took the first full-color shot of Earth from Apollo 17
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- montrose 9y agoMods, you have overdone the title-rewriting slightly. This was not the first full-color shot of earth, just the first from Apollo 17.
- yesenadam 9y agoYes. Well, not even that - "NASA plucked the second and clearest of the photos".. I was just looking at colour pics of the whole Earth from 1967[0], I think they were the first. [0]http://library.ssec.wisc.edu/spinscan/about.php http://library.ssec.wisc.edu/spinscan/about.php
- sctb 9y agoThanks! Added a “from Apollo 17”.
- Friedduck 9y agoI fully expect to see that someone’s figures it out from micro vibrations, or preferred aperture, when comparing it to clearly credited photos. I’m amazed what human ingenuity is capable of in situations like this. Related: when I used to travel with a film camera inevitably I would recall taking a photo someone else took credit for as well. Something about seeing a scene in your mind’s eye, recalling exactly that moment, leads one to believe they pushed the button.
- teh_klev 9y agoProblems with identifying who took the various Apollo mission photo's seems to be a long running thing: (Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16067535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16067535
- toomanybeersies 9y agoOn a related note, a huge amount of photos taken during the Apollo missions are available on Flickr, all the way from Apollo 7 to 17: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
- jccalhoun 9y agoStanley Kubrick
- lostgame 9y agoHa.