53 years ago today, astronaut and lunar module pilot Bill Anders took this photograph as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon. “Oh my God. Look at that picture over there! There’s the Earth comin’ up. Wow, is that pretty!” (This is the original B&W image that NASA remastered into color.) 
Here's the story behind the photograph, and how it was remastered in 2018 for its 50th anniversary: jw9c.blogspot.com/2018/01/earthr…
The second “Earthrise“ photograph is the more well known (and more frequently reproduced) image, which Anders shot in color. However, for decades it has been incorrectly rotated 90 degrees so that the lunar horizon is nearly horizontal with Earth rising above it.
In 2018, science writer Robert Zimmerman wrote eloquently about why the photograph’s proper orientation matters: behindtheblack.com/tag/earthrise/
Here’s more about Apollo 8, the making of this iconic photograph of our planet, and what its publication meant to the United States and the world in the tumultuous year of 1968. washingtonpost.com/history/2018/1…
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