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Topic: Apollo photo with Earth in helmet visor
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apollo16uvc
Member Posts: 236
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017
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posted 03-29-2022 04:16 PM
   
Are there any Apollo photos where the Earth is visible on the golden visor?Even as a tiny smudge or particle of light will do. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 48062
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-29-2022 04:56 PM
The famous photo (AS11-40-5903) of Buzz Aldrin with Neil Armstrong reflected in Aldrin's helmet visor also captured Earth. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4453
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 03-29-2022 05:04 PM
If I am not mistaken, Earth is visible in Cernan's visor in the classic "John Wayne" EVA shot. |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 107
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 03-29-2022 05:53 PM
Not much to see but this cropped Apollo 17 image from magazine E, AS17-140-21391 could show the Earth reflected in Gene Cernan's visor. |
randy
Member Posts: 2563
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-29-2022 05:57 PM
That blue dot in Cernan's visor reflection is Earth. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4453
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 03-30-2022 03:34 AM
That’s the one! |
One Big Monkey
Member Posts: 180
From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 03-30-2022 10:21 AM
Naturally you also get Earth shown in Schmitt's photo taken at the same time (AS17-140-21386): Less obvious is the little blue dot picked out in Schmitt's visor when he's at the rover in AS17-140-21369:  John Young's jump salute photos (AS16-113-18339 and AS16-113-18340) both show Earth:  And as best I can work out, the Apollo 12 image of Alan Bean at the LM ladder (AS12-46-6729) also shows Earth high in the lunar sky towards the top of his visor:  |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3431
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-30-2022 11:22 AM
If that is indeed Earth reflected by Alan Bean's visor, that must surely be the only image taken on the surface of the Moon on Apollo 12 which shows the Earth. (I can't see it in other Apollo 12 images, but I'm open to correction....) |
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