On Christmas Eve, all three Apollo crewmembers took photos of Earth as it rose over the moon's horizon, but Anders was the only one shooting on color film. The resulting photograph, titled 'Earthrise,' captured Earth's loneliness and fragility in a way that no image ever had before.
Fifty years later, Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers wrote that photo 'confirmed' the movement's conviction 'that the Earth's environment was common to all of us, that the Earth's natural resources were finite, and that 150 years of unfettered industrial development was having a profound impact on our planet.'
"Here we came all the way to the moon to discover Earth," he said.
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