Hi there, another question about the Spacecraft Films products.

Some (at least one!) of the Apollo missions shot 16mm movie footage of Earthrise over the limb of the Moon. I've currently got the Apollo 8 and 17 Full DVD sets, and it's not on those. Can anyone tell me which missions had this footage?

Cheers, Rob.

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Ah! Found it! I love any excuse to spend any time looking at Apollo stuff

Apollo 10 Earthrise Video Clip

Enjoy

WHat strikes me everytime, is how strange orbiting something with no atmoshpere is. They seem to skim the surface, everything being so clear. Enchanting. Maybe the astronaut that had to stay in the orbiter during the landings had the worst job in the world, but when seeing this, if he could just forget about those 2 people below, he had the best job in the world!!!

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*nitpick* The moon has an atmosphere.

You meant that as a hoax joke (you winked me) or do you mean the claims that there is an ultra thin ultra faint atmosphere?

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Yeah, ultra thin atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_body_atmosphere

"Other bodies in the solar system possess extremely thin atmospheres. Such bodies are the Moon (sodium gas)"

I kinda recalled reading something about it, so just punched in lunar atmosphere into google. Found some numbers saying a few atoms per cubic cm or something, so put in atmosphere into wikipedia. And the rest is history

And the solar wind makes it stream out from the moon like a comet tail.

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mmmm, solar wind...*drool*

See? Even Jay kinda halfway admits that the moon has an atmosphere. At least he's not denying it, which is definite proof.

Nobody's denying it. We sent stuff on Apollo to study it.

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OH NO! The Moon's really a comet just like Venus!!!!! #-o

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*nitpick* The moon would in that case be an asteroid, not comet.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid

"Thus, it would be safest to use the term "asteroid" for Solar System objects that are bigger than meteoroids, smaller than planets, and made out of rock, not ice."

Cheers Johnno! It would be great to see that filmed for IMAX one day.... 8)

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Let's see what Hanks will make out of the stuff we already have.
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* Nitpick - Wikipedia, being editable by everybody, should not really be used as a reference.

It's online, it must be true! I admit my mistake, I didn't really think about how it's a free editable source.

I was at work and couldn't be bothered to surf too long, but fine, let me get some more sources. :P

dictionary.com regarding asteroid

"any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun"


http://space.about.com/cs/glossarya/g/asteroid.htm

"Asteroid : a medium-sized rocky object orbiting the Sun; smaller than a planet, larger than a meteoroid. Asteroids show no evidence of an atmosphere or other types of activity associated with comets. Asteroids can be lass that one-mile to almost 600 miles in diameter."

Hmmmmmmm.... interesting....

Space.com Moon Definition Article



Fine, I retract my nitpick. PhantomWolf, you're off the hook (for now)

The Moon's atmosphere is so rarified that the Moon landings added measurably to it - the atmospheric instruments from previous missions could detect when a new mission had arrived.

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