Buy Apollo 8 Earthrise space photo. High quality Earthrise picture, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photo AS08-14-2383. Wide variety of sizes. The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft near 110 degrees east longitude. The horizon, about 570 kilometers (250 statute miles) from the spacecraft, is near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from the Earth. On the earth, the sunset terminator crosses Africa. The south pole is in the white area near the left end of the terminator. North and South America are under the clouds. December 22, 1968 Credits: NASA JSC |