This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came
from behind the Moon after the lunar orbit insertion burn. Earth is about five
degrees above the horizon in the photo. The unnamed surface features in the
foreground are near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar
horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Width of the
photographed area at the horizon is about 175 kilometers. On the Earth 240,000
miles away, the sunset terminator bisects Africa.
