Vintage Pics: Early 20th-Century Artists Imagine 'Earthrise' From Mars
"Earthrise" Photo The evening they entered lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, NASA's Apollo 8 team broadcast images of the Earth as they saw it. NASA Nearly 100 years before the Apollo program, people wondered what it would look like to see Earth from outer space. People make a lot of fuss about that heartbreaking photo of home that Apollo 8 astronauts took in 1968. But as historic as "Earthrise" was, it wasn't the first time humans thought about what the Earth would look like from an alien land. In a testament to the human imagination, illustrators from as far back as 1800s made drawings envisioning what Earth would look like to viewers standing on the moon, Mercury, or Mars. Library of Congress special curator Trevor Owens collected some of these illustrations in a blog post yesterday. Check out his post for more images and full explanations of each illustration. Here are just...