Last night I watched a great documentary about the Apollo 8 mission. What days those were! So, that being fresh in my mind, look at this.
The hidden colors of the regolith are revealed in this 81 megapixel shot of the Worm Moon, captured using two cameras and around 50,000 individual images last week. Make sure you expand the image and zoom into the surface! pic.twitter.com/VW5eTC5nbG
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) March 16, 2023
I remember watching and being moved by that Apollo 8 mission Christmas Eve broadcast on TV at my parent’s house, home from college on my Christmas break, where one of the astronauts read from the book of Genesis. The first flight to ever leave Earth’s orbit and circle the moon, quite a milestone.