Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image

by Brad Grier on November 2, 2007

in Desktop Images,In the life,Photography

Earthrise 1280 x 1024Today I was feeling the need to update my desktop, and decided to look around for a 1280x1024 version of Earthrise. I couldn't quickly find one...so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400x2400 version from NASA and cropped it. Feel free to grab my (1024x768) version here.

** Update Feb 17, 2008 **

Since I've got a new 22" wide format monitor, I needed to rebuild my Earthrise desktop. So here it is, in 1680x1050 rez.

Full credit to the NASA and the Apollo 8 crew (Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders)

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1 bgrier (Brad Grier) July 15, 2009 at 11:29 pm

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@adampatterson Very nice! Thanks! The Apollo 8 Earthrise is my desktop at work…love that shot! [link to post]

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