This Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the day we first saw the planet from this extraordinary, quasi-alien vantagepoint; a pivotal event that occurred on October 24, 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Snapped from an altitude of 65 miles by a Devry 35-millimeter motion picture camera, the black-and-white image captures the Earth’s curvature and the sweep of cloud cover over the American Southwest.
Kite Member
Posts: 831 From: Northampton UK Registered: Nov 2009
posted 10-24-2016 02:22 PM
That is really interesting Robert. Never seen that before. How quickly things developed (excuse the pun).
Wehaveliftoff Member
Posts: 2343 From: Registered: Aug 2001
posted 12-15-2016 02:19 PM
The resolution is not much different from the not-so-clear film of Apollo 11's first steps on the moon. I always wondered what camera/film equipment they used to capture that and wish it was a far better resolution then we saw.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-24-2016 12:22 PM
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