The Earth is seen off the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken by the astronaut Bill Anders from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on December 24, 1968. On Earth, 240,000 miles away, the sunset terminator crosses Africa. The South Pole is in the white area near the bottom end of the terminator. North and South America are under the clouds. As the crew was in the middle of their fourth lunar orbit, Anders looked out of window 5 and exclaimed "Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!" He and Commander Frank Borman shot several images of the event, with this one becoming the most famous, known as Earthrise. (Bill Anders / NASA)
En noviembre de 1969, los astronautas del Apolo 12 visitaron el vehículo de aterrizaje lunar no tripulado Surveyor III, que se había posado en la Luna más de dos años antes, el 20 de abril de 1967. La nave de aterrizaje del Apolo, el Intrepid, se ve en el horizonte.
