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“The greatest challenge was in getting the colors right, since so few people have seen this with their own eyes,” Ord tells Astronomy. “The Earth is so often depicted with vivid blues and greens, that it took me a long time to trust the evidence of the photographs themselves and preserve the real colors of our planet as seen from space — blue and white and brown, with even the most lush vegetation showing just a hint of green.”
After many long evenings of work, the results are stunning. Below is a sampling of Ord’s fully restored images of the entire Earth, gleaned from more than 18,000 original Apollo shots.
“The greatest challenge was in getting the colors right, since so few people have seen this with their own eyes,” Ord tells Astronomy. “The Earth is so often depicted with vivid blues and greens, that it took me a long time to trust the evidence of the photographs themselves and preserve the real colors of our planet as seen from space — blue and white and brown, with even the most lush vegetation showing just a hint of green.”
After many long evenings of work, the results are stunning. Below is a sampling of Ord’s fully restored images of the entire Earth, gleaned from more than 18,000 original Apollo shots.
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