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Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image

Today I was feel­ing the need to update my desktop, and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 ver­sion of Earth­rise. I could­n’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 ver­sion from NASA and cropped it. Feel free to grab my (1024×768) ver­sion here. ** Update Feb 17, 2008 ** Since I’ve…

Earthrise 1280 x 1024Today I was feel­ing the need to update my desktop, and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 ver­sion of Earth­rise. I could­n’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 ver­sion from NASA and cropped it. Feel free to grab my (1024×768) 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 1680×1050 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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    @adampatterson Very nice! Thanks! The Apollo 8 Earth­rise is my desktop at work…love that shot! [link to post]

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