NASA
The Moon
National Maritime Museum,
London, to 5 January 2020
WHEN Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders returned to Earth after orbiting the moon in 1968, he came back with a new perspective. The newspapers were full of the eerily beautiful colour photograph we now know as Earthrise.
Taken by Anders on Christmas Eve, the image shows a fragile and lonely Earth rising above the horizon of the moon’s pocked surface. Almost as iconic was his remark at the time: “We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”…
![Small dome in the Compton-Belkovich region (61.33 ?N, 99.68 ?E). Evidence indicates a volcanic origin for this and other intriguing features in the region. Incidence angle is 64?, Sun is from the SSW, image is ~510 m across. NAC image number M139238146L [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].](https://images.newscientistbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/07172644/SEI_163208069.jpg)
