Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. Credit: NASA by albusvercus
mr_antman85 on April 5, 2026 4:53 pm That picture does not make sense in my brain. It’s nothing but blackness out there.
Outcast199008 on April 5, 2026 5:03 pm I would have thought the Earth would be smaller than that. If I Google images of Earth from the moon.. it just gives me a headache.
SmokyQuartz21 on April 5, 2026 5:44 pm another fake photo from nasa nice. Every single space photo from nasa is not real hope yall know that.
TTrash10_ on April 5, 2026 5:47 pm Does anyone know what that blue-ish hue a little south of earth is??
deepstaterising on April 5, 2026 6:02 pm You can’t tell me technology has not advanced enough for cameras to detect stars and to display them on an image.
UnicornsAreTasty on April 5, 2026 7:08 pm Someone turned the [photo on its side](https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/apollo-8-earthrise/).
shimy007 on April 5, 2026 7:51 pm why do we never get closeup pictures from the moon but the 100st perfectly bal shaped picture of the earth? i mean we are 🤌 close to the moon i wanna see the surface not these google earth globe pictures
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That picture does not make sense in my brain. It’s nothing but blackness out there.
I would have thought the Earth would be smaller than that.
If I Google images of Earth from the moon.. it just gives me a headache.
I see a bad Earth a-rising.
another fake photo from nasa nice. Every single space photo from nasa is not real hope yall know that.
Does anyone know what that blue-ish hue a little south of earth is??
You can’t tell me technology has not advanced enough for cameras to detect stars and to display them on an image.
Anyone got a link to the full sized raw picture?
Someone turned the [photo on its side](https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/apollo-8-earthrise/).
why do we never get closeup pictures from the moon but the 100st perfectly bal shaped picture of the earth? i mean we are 🤌 close to the moon i wanna see the surface not these google earth globe pictures
We’re all on that little marble together.