Photos of earth

[Photo hound]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface? Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.
Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

[Dr.Acula]

There are some photos with the Earth taken from lunar surface. But anyway you should remember, Apollo was a mission to the Moon to examine the lunar surface, not the lunar sky.

[AstroBrant]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface? Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.
Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

There were several. In addition to the ones from Apollo 17 with the flag in them, Gene took some pictures of earth from the base of South Massif near Nansen. (Station 2, I believe?)
Al Shepard took nine pictures of the earth with the LM in them. I believe it was Apollo 12 which also got a couple with the LM. There are probably others.

And of course, there are several pictures of the earth from lunar orbit, with the moon in the foreground. Apollo 8 and 14 among them, IIRC.

Sorry I don't have the catalog numbers right now, but that's a start. I've got some things to do before looking them up. I'm sure others will provide some.

[Bryanpoprobson]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface? Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.
Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

There is more than one..

Here is one from Apollo 11 for instance.. (AS11-40-5923)

[BazBear]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface? Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.
Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

For one thing, there's more than one photo taken on the Moon that shows the Earth. I don't have the time or inclination to go looking for them right now.

The biggest point is they didn't go all the way to Moon to take a bunch pictures of the Earth, they obviously went there to explore and photograph the Moon.

[Bryanpoprobson]

Apollo 14

[Bryanpoprobson]

This is one from Lunar Orbit Apollo 15

[Bryanpoprobson]

and of course the famous Apollo 17 one, not to mention all the Earthrise ones taken from Lunar Orbit.

[smartcooky]

Google image search is your friend...

https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=849&q=Earth+from+the+Moon&oq=Earth+from+the+Moon&gs_l=img.3..0l10.821.3914.0.5094.19.11.0.0.0.0.1097.2278.3-1j6-1j1.3.0....0...1ac.1.58.img..16.3.2270.-bVMdI7miGc


Some are mock-ups, some are real and some are unrelated. You have to learn to pick which are which.

This might give you more consistent results...

https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=849&q=Earth+from+the+Moon&oq=Earth+from+the+Moon&gs_l=img.3..0l10.821.3914.0.5094.19.11.0.0.0.0.1097.2278.3-1j6-1j1.3.0....0...1ac.1.58.img..16.3.2270.-bVMdI7miGc#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=earth%20from%20the%20moon%20nasa&revid=1816297138&imgdii=_

[onebigmonkey]

There are also several views of Earth filmed by the rover's TV cameras.

[twik]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface? Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.
Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

Well, can you tell me first why they should have taken pictures of Earth while standing on the Moon?

We already had lots of pictures of the Earth from space. It wasn't going to look much different. Why should they have wasted precious time and film on pictures that would not have given a particularly good view of Earth from space?

This is a serious question. If you are more than a drive-by poster, please answer it.

[onebigmonkey]

You also have to consider, with a chest-mounted camera, just how difficult it was to get shots of anything above horizon level - something you can also see on the rover TV footage.

[smartcooky]

You also have to consider, with a chest-mounted camera, just how difficult it was to get shots of anything above horizon level - something you can also see on the rover TV footage.

Yes.

I imagine in order to take the photo of Harrison Schmidt, the Flag and the Earth  that Bryanprorobson posted in Reply#8, that Gene Cernan would have had to have leaned back quote some way.

[JayUtah]

Cernan was essentially kneeling on the ground in order to get the right angle.  For most of the landing sites, Earth was more or less directly overhead.  It wasn't an easy shot to get, nor a shot considered especially important or desirable.

[Zakalwe]

Why can we see only one photo of earth that was taken from the moon surface?

Why do you believe that there's only one?

Will somebody show me some photos of earth that the astronauts took.

Click me

Why did they not take pictures of earth while standing on the moon surface?

They did.