A Man on the Moon
by Andrew Chaikin · 1 Jan 1994 · 816pp · 242,405 words
13: The Last Men on the Moon (Apollo 17) 495 I: Sunrise at Midnight 495 II: Apollo at the Limit 516 III: Witnesses to the Earthrise 531 Epilogue: The Audiences of the Moon 553 Appendices 585 Appendix A: Astronaut Biographical Information 585 Appendix B: Persons Interviewed 594 Appendix C: Apollo Mission
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you sure we got it now?” asked Lovell urgently. “Yeah. It'll come up again, I think,” Anders said dryly. The first witnesses to an earthrise returned to their work, each carrying the impact of the sight. For his part, Anders had been so focused on photographing, observing, and describing the
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thousand feet high. The mountains of the lunar highlands looked close enough to touch. Suddenly the men were stunned by the sight of their first earth-rise. Now they were in contact with Capcom Charlie Duke, and Cernan's voice soared. “Houston, this is Snoopyl We is Go and we is down
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the deserted battlefield of the final war: the lunar far side, seen from a distance of 69 miles. below: The most electrifying sight of all: earthrise, photographed by Bill Anders on Christmas Eve, 1968. below: “Happy Birthday, Mother.” Lovell and Borman (background) on TV, 140,000 miles from home. above: One
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discovery for Farouk El-Baz. “And there’s old Mother Earth,” Mattingly said aloud. “Man, that’s a beauty, too. Never get tired of watching earthrise.” Earth: the source of all his troubles. To no one’s surprise Mattingly had put together a staggering solo flight plan and was bent on
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overhead window, and rolled the shade closed. He told Allen with gentle irony, “Tomorrow we answer all the unanswered questions. Right?” Ill: Witnesses to the Earthrise Wednesday, December 13 El Lago, Texas For days now, Jan Evans had ducked outside in hopes of seeing the moon, but instead she saw an
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moon, Jack Schmitt saw his first earthrise. Looking at that bright crescent, Schmitt sensed the same fragility his predecessors had seen. It had nothing to do with the earth’s appearance, he would say later; it stemmed from its monumental isolation in the blackness. The earth- rise brightened Schmitt's dark mood for
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the self, and his thoughts would return to the sight of that small and lovely crescent beyond the alien shore. The ability to witness an earthrise, he would note, could happen only if humankind took the well-planned but still significant risk of sending three of its members into an environment
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Ed Mitchell. He does say that the experience of being one of the first three men to circle the moon—and in particular, seeing the earthrise—broadened his perspective forever. It also made him something of an oracle, for a time. On the banquet circuit after Apollo 8, people would ask
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to renew the friendships—and settle an old score. For years, Frank Borman had maintained that he had taken the famous picture of the first earthrise; he even said he’d had to grab the camera away from Anders to do it. A few years later, just for fun, Jim Lovell
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the final, unequivocal verdict: Anders took the picture. In San Diego, during a slide presentation before a group of high school students, up came the earthrise photo. "I’d better not comment on this one,” Anders said. "Jim, why don’t you comment?” Lovell announced, "This picture has always been under
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contention ... I think it’s time now for Frank to have a public admission.” Throughout the event, the earthrise picture became a running joke, and Borman took it all with good humor. Anders’s suspicions about Borman were correct: he had indeed mellowed. "I
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fountains may have originated some 300 miles below the surface, over a quarter of the way to the moon’s center. Ill: Witnesses to the Earthrise 535 getting within 9 miles was good enough: Like the previous three crews, Evans and his crewmates had spent about a day in the descent
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somehow ... I didn’t do my share.” He adds, “Does that make any sense? Hell, no.” 563 the famous picture of the first earthrise: Here is Borman’s earthrise story, as he told it to the author in March 1988: “I’m looking over the lunar horizon, and there’s the earth
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by James Donovan · 12 Mar 2019
Chapter Seven: The Gusmobile Chapter Eight: The Walk, and a Sky Gone Berserk III.: OUT Chapter Nine: Inferno Chapter Ten: Recovery Chapter Eleven: Phoenix and Earthrise Chapter Twelve: “Amiable Strangers” Chapter Thirteen: A Practice Run and a Dress Rehearsal IV.: DOWN Chapter Fourteen: “You’re Go” Chapter Fifteen: The Translunar Express
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V worked—and so had Mueller’s daring all-up approach. NASA might still be able to make Kennedy’s deadline. Chapter Eleven Phoenix and Earthrise To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as
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navigation, guidance, and tracking systems. The photo Anders snapped of a luminous blue-and-white Earth rising over the lunar horizon would become one of the most reproduced and best-known photographs of the twentieth century. “Earthrise” and other photos taken by the crew—the first color images to show humans their home
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History Project. “It sounded reckless”: Cortright, Apollo Expeditions to the Moon. put on standby status: Lewis, Appointment on the Moon, 408–23. Eleven: Phoenix and Earthrise “To see the Earth”: Archibald MacLeish, “A Reflection,” New York Times, December 25, 1968. reentry and splashdown: Flight Dynamics Controllers, Oral Histories of NASA Flight
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to take a cosmonaut to the moon. The decision to send the next flight around the moon was a daring one. The iconic “Earthrise,” as this photo of Earth rising over the lunar surface came to be called, was taken by Apollo 8’s Bill Anders on December 24, 1968. Apollo 9, launched
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by Jim Bell · 24 Feb 2015 · 310pp · 89,653 words
astronauts on the moon “before this decade was out,” established by a bold vision of the late President Kennedy. The Lunar Orbiter I photo of “Earthrise” was indeed a huge public relations hit. It became an instant poster handed out by NASA to members of Congress and visiting dignitaries as an
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? Hand me that roll of color quick, would you . . . LOVELL: Oh man, that’s great! The three men were the first people to observe an “Earthrise” from another world. Anders and Borman took a number of color and black-and-white photos over the next few minutes, but once the crew
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timing of the event compared to their busy flight plan. The crew had also captured the world’s attention just a few hours after the Earthrise photo was taken, with their Christmas Eve reading of part of the Bible’s Genesis creation story to an enormous worldwide television audience. Some commentators
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credit the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo with helping inspire the first Earth Day in 1970, and even with providing the impetus to propel much of the modern environmental movement into
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home just how limited our resources truly are. In LIFE magazine’s 2003 compendium “100 Photographs That Changed the World,” wilderness photographer Galen Rowell named Earthrise, which featured prominently on the cover of the magazine, as “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” Despite perhaps being eclipsed in the media and
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! We’d taken the first photo of our home world from the surface of another planet. We one-upped our feat by taking the first Earthrise movie from the surface of another planet in late 2005, using the cameras on the Opportunity rover to snap the Earth and Jupiter rising gracefully
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in the predawn sky above the dunes of Meridiani Planum. We’d worked up valid scientific justifications for taking all these Earthrise photos—for example, the need to measure the thickness of dust or water ice clouds/fog in the early-morning Mars atmosphere. But in the
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regular citizens. Earth and Moon “Firsts” from Space. TOP LEFT: Lunar Orbiter I’s first whole Earth photo from space. TOP RIGHT: Apollo 8 color Earthrise photo from lunar orbit. BELOW: First image of the Earth and Moon together from Voyager 1. Voyager and the Golden Record. TOP: Spacecraft and systems
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-nasa-lunar-orbiter-1-anniversary.html; (c) moonviews.com/lunar-orbiter-1-i-or-a; and (d) moonviews.com/2013/05/how-life-magazine-revealed-earthrise-in-1966.html. “Oh my God. Look at that picture . . .”: Transcripts of conversations and events from the Apollo 8 mission can be found in David
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by Robert Kurson · 2 Apr 2018 · 361pp · 110,905 words
: A Critical Test Chapter Fifteen: An Astronaut in Trouble Chapter Sixteen: Equigravisphere Chapter Seventeen: Racing the Moon Chapter Eighteen: Our Most Ancient Companion Chapter Nineteen: Earthrise Chapter Twenty: The Heaven and the Earth Chapter Twenty-one: Aiming for Home Chapter Twenty-two: Please Be Informed—There Is a Santa Claus Chapter
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finally vanished from its windows. The men were due to reestablish contact with Houston in just one minute. For now, no one said a word. Earthrise was the most beautiful sight Borman had ever seen, the only color visible in all the cosmos. The planet just hung there, a jewel on
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boulders strewn about. So that’s what Lovell guessed. “No,” Borman said. “It’s the Earth coming up.” Through his window, Borman had caught another Earthrise, this one as stunning as the first, not just for its beauty, but for how it came to him—unexpected, ascendant, a call from home
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on December 29 when some of the pictures were developed—pictures unlike any mankind had seen before. Shots he took of Earthrise showed the bright blue-and-white marble of Earth rising over the Moon’s gray horizon, the only color in an all-black universe—a tiny, shining oasis in the cosmos
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. NASA selected the best one of Anders’s Earthrise photos, and on December 30, it appeared on the front pages of newspapers across
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full color in magazines and Sunday supplements. (Most everyone published the photo with the Moon’s surface horizontal, though Anders and his crewmates had witnessed Earthrise with the lunar surface both horizontal and vertical. To Anders, both perspectives were correct—there was no real up or down in space.) In the
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following year, the United States Postal Service would issue a new stamp featuring the Earthrise image. In a year of historic photographs—of the street execution of a Vietnamese prisoner; of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s associates pointing in the
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in a busboy’s arms; of the Black Power salute at the Summer Olympics—the image of Earthrise captured the world’s imagination. In case anyone had missed it, President Johnson sent a print of Earthrise to every world leader. Grateful for the attention the photograph produced, the Hasselblad company, which made
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Apollo 13’s return, the first Earth Day observance was held, a series of demonstrations, celebrations, and rallies to protect the environment. Apollo 8’s Earthrise photo was used as the movement’s symbol. Some suggested it was Apollo 8 itself—man’s first look at his home planet, and at
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Moon during Christmas. She composed Frank’s eulogy around the time this photograph was taken because she needed to be ready. Lynn Pelham/Getty Images Earthrise, as photographed by Bill Anders on Christmas Eve, 1968. Fifty years later, this photograph remains among the most influential and impactful of all time. To
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to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8 (American Experience—PBS / Indigo Studios 2005) svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//4129 (a brilliant animated explanation of Earthrise, narrated by Andrew Chaikin) youtube.com/watch?v=Vn00BvWwke0 (launch of Apollo 8) Please check my website (robertkurson.com) for a more comprehensive list of
Red Moon
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 22 Oct 2018 · 492pp · 141,544 words
a Low Profile (Deng) AI 2 ganrao shebei Interference with the Device TA SHU 2 xia yi bu The Next Step CHAPTER FOUR di chu Earthrise TA SHU 3 yueliang ren Moon Person CHAPTER FIVE tao dao diqiu shang Escape to Earth AI 3 shexian ren zai chuxian Reappearance of the
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at all. Great for radio astronomy, I’m told. I want to see that too, see if it feels different. “But in the libration zone, Earth rises into view, then sinks. That brings up all kinds of interesting questions. Should one build on the Earthmost side of the zone, and maximize the
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. Maybe we look to the next step in order to avoid seeing ourselves. Not narcissism, then, but an attempt to forget. CHAPTER FOUR di chu Earthrise Ta Shu stopped recording for his cloud show, feeling that his remarks were veering off track again into an area he did not want to
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escort, up broad stairs, into the pavilion. The trick was to move slowly, to flow. Zhou Bao greeted him happily. “We have some time before Earthrise,” he said. “Let me show you some of my friends here, you will enjoy them.” “Please do,” Ta Shu said. Zhou gestured to an open
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to tell her about his moon adventures, and he gave her what he considered the most entertaining of his stories, which turned out to be Earthrise and the feather and hammer. As he told them, she tapped on her wristpad for a while, and then brewed the tea. “Here’s a
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had really been there; he even hoped to go back. As he rested and they measured his limbs, he told them about the very slow Earthrise, and the Peaks of Eternal Light. The attendants loved learning or rehearsing these things. They brought out a couple of exoskeletons while they checked his
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than that it’s probably safer than a city street.” “Did you like it?” “I did. It was peculiar, but interesting.” He told her about Earthrise and how long it took. She got up, with some difficulty, and put a teapot on to boil. “You should have one of these,” he
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Zhou Bao, patiently watching the Earth rise, then hang spinning like a kind of clock, then set behind the white hills of the moon. So far from home, a friend. A man who could face misfortune with a brave spirit. You face it, you persevere. You enjoy Earthrise and write poems. He made
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out. A couple of hours had passed, and the Earth was as thin a sliver as when they had gotten under the rover. Luna’s Earthrise was slow. In the rover’s air lock, a combination of electric charges and blasts of compressed air blew the dust from their suits. When
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white cloud of the Milky Way arcing overhead. Uncountable stars, although someone said it was around ten thousand. Dhu was looking up the time for Earthrise on his wrist, Bo was looking around Zhou’s office. Zhou had known that Ta Shu was coming with guests, so he sidled in unsurprised
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answer to this; Zhou spotted Dhu looking at his wrist and then at the horizon, and quickly followed that lead, talking about the slowness of Earthrise—how it pricked the horizon like a sapphire, how the lack of an atmosphere on the moon meant there was no warning of that arrival
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
by Francis French, Colin Burgess and Walter Cunningham · 1 Jun 2010 · 628pp · 170,668 words
within a second of the estimated time. That first rounding of the moon also brought the first opportunity for a human being to see the Earth rise above the lunar horizon, a classic image that has come to symbolize the Apollo program. Unfortunately, no one saw it; the engine had been pointed
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sixty nautical miles above the lunar surface, that the spacecraft was rotated “heads up” and facing forward. The windows were now positioned to face the Earthrise. As the spacecraft rounded the far side of the moon, Earth began to peek over the horizon like a brilliant, pale blue beacon. Borman, awed
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up.” Until that moment, according to Anders, the three of them had simply been pilots and engineers doing their jobs. The moment they saw the Earthrise was an almost transcendental experience, and one that pulled them away from their assigned tasks. Their eyes irresistibly drawn to the sight, each of them
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the Earth.” Jim Lovell was also fascinated by what he saw, and it later led him to think more profoundly about his experience: “That first earthrise was really amazing; an amazing view when we saw for the first time the Earth coming over the lunar horizon. And we all wanted to
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, the other the first to truly visit a new one. In terms of what he achieved personally, he sees the photo he took of the Earthrise as perhaps the most important thing he did on that mission. It has been called the most influential photo ever taken, in terms of how
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newspaper without glasses in earthshine on the moon. That’s how bright it is—it’s like having a sixty-watt lamp. The beauty of Earthrise was not a surprise to the crew. After all, they had seen Bill Anders’s magnificent photo and knew that the sight would be one
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
by Jeffrey Kluger · 15 May 2017 · 396pp · 112,354 words
photograph needed to be cared for more gently than humans had ever treated it before. That was the picture—the one that would be called Earthrise—that rested inside Bill Anders’s camera. But on Christmas Eve day 1968, nobody knew it. FOURTEEN Christmas Eve 1968 The television networks would get
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few times in the magazine’s history that the singular Man of the Year honorific was replaced by the plural. Over time, Bill Anders’s Earthrise photo became the defining image he’d sensed it might be, reproduced hundreds of millions of times on postage stamps, wall posters, T-shirts, coffee
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, the angle of the spacecraft’s prow allowed the crew to get their first glimpse of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon. Anders captured the iconic image that would come to be known as “Earthrise.” After Apollo 8 landed in the Pacific Ocean in the predawn hours of December 27, 1968, the
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and honors background of Borman’s illness and chatter on flight and Christmas in space and crater named for distance record and early orbit and Earthrise photo by family and later career of launch preparations and lunar orbit entry and lunar orbits and motion sickness and photographs by prelaunch and liftoff
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(Edmonds) Duke, Charlie Earth Apollo 8 leaves gravity of humans adapted to light-time distance to position of, and launch window views of, from space Earthrise (photograph) Earthshine Eastern Air Lines Eastern Europe Edmonds, Walter Edwards Air Force Base Eisele, Donn Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, Dwight Electronic Data Systems Elizabeth II, Queen
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by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words
an ancient Indian (and later, British) board game called Snakes and Ladders. II. Much the same issue confronted NASA on the release of the first Earthrise over the Moon picture, taken in December 1968 by the Apollo 8 crew—the same year as 2001’s premiere. The first release had the
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axis of 2001’s central totem, the monolith—were influenced by these late-night discussions. And they, in turn, were catalyzed by that epic opening Earthrise shot, which had predated Cantwell’s arrival and already depicted an eclipse of the Sun by Earth as seen from the vantage point of the
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by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 27 Feb 2012 · 476pp · 118,381 words
the far side of the Moon, they pulled out the camera, looked through the window of the command module, and captured Earth rising over the lunar landscape. This widely published image, titled Earthrise, presented Earth as a cosmic object, aloft in the sky of another cosmic object. It was simultaneously thrilling and humbling
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and also a little scary. By the way, the title Earthrise is a bit misleading. Earth has tidally locked the Moon, which means that the Moon eternally shows only one side to us. The urge is strong to presume that Earth rises and sets for observers on the Moon just as the Moon
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:20 AM They were also the first to orbit the Moon, the first to land an unmanned capsule on the Moon, the first to photograph Earthrise from the Moon, the first to photograph the far side of the Moon, the first to put a rover on the Moon, and the first
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life on, 33–35, 47–48 orbit of, 115 risk of impacts to, 49–51, 50 study of, 227–28 viewed from space, 26–28 Earthrise, 69–70 Eddington, Arthur, 107 Education, Department of, US, 326 Einstein, Albert, 94, 97, 101, 161, 195, 248, 251 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 4, 11, 123
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what we humans can accomplish. For us the blue backlit Pluto image evokes the same emotions that Apollo’s Earthrise image did. And we love the symmetry of the front-lit Apollo Earthrise image taken at the dawn of the era of planetary exploration, when most of the planets were still unexplored
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sublime image, we also think about how it was made and what it represents: that’s Pluto, backlit by the Sun. Just like the Apollo Earthrise image could only be made from the vicinity of the Moon, this image could only be made from the far side of Pluto. As described
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