NASA BELATEDLY BRINGS THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON TO LIGHT
As Nasa's art director's didn't want the Apollo astronauts stumbling around in the dark, all the manned moon missions landed on Luna in broad daylight, which while grand for doing geology, put the kibosh on photo opportunities involving the dark far side of the moon, which, despite all the mind-bending pictures of Earthrise, never found its way on to the back cover of The Whole Earth Catalog, or into the popular imagination
Which may have done space exploration a good turn. Much as it must cheer CBS execs to know their logo has been on view for 4.7 billion years, the partial eclipse of the Earth is not the stuff creation myths are made of, witness this stunningly unanticipated image from the 4 megapixel Whole Earth camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory parked by NASA orbiting the Lagrangian gravity well a million miles out , between the earth and the sun:
Tip of the hat to Al Gore for sheparding the DISCO satellite's funding across the fiscal dance floor through the doldrums of the Space Age.
As Nasa's art director's didn't want the Apollo astronauts stumbling around in the dark, all the manned moon missions landed on Luna in broad daylight, which while grand for doing geology, put the kibosh on photo opportunities involving the dark far side of the moon, which, despite all the mind-bending pictures of Earthrise, never found its way on to the back cover of The Whole Earth Catalog, or into the popular imagination
Which may have done space exploration a good turn. Much as it must cheer CBS execs to know their logo has been on view for 4.7 billion years, the partial eclipse of the Earth is not the stuff creation myths are made of, witness this stunningly unanticipated image from the 4 megapixel Whole Earth camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory parked by NASA orbiting the Lagrangian gravity well a million miles out , between the earth and the sun:
Tip of the hat to Al Gore for sheparding the DISCO satellite's funding across the fiscal dance floor through the doldrums of the Space Age.
