Onboard Diary

Fly me to the Moon... and let me take pictures among the stars

We discovered a few days ago (via Alt1040, an endless source of great materials for all those photography, science and technology lovers) a terrific piece of news. The photograph considered by many journalist at the time to be 'this century's image',  Earth as seen from the Moon, has been restored.

Thanks to the technological resources and tools available nowadays, the picture (originally taken on August, the 23rd 1966) has undergone drastic and evident improvement. This is all part of a project started 20 years ago by Nancy Evans, which was completed a little bit more than a year ago by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing from Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, which belongs to our beloved NASA.

The increase in quality seems incredible, compared to the original image... Besides the fact that this other image, taken in colour 8 years later, has ended up being better known. Which one do you choose?