Both Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Are Visible from Apollo 8 Spacecraft
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Both Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Are Visible from Apollo 8 Spacecraft
Africa and South America
December 22, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.8 x 18.5 cm
Overall: 25.6 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Glenn E. Matthews
2011.0099.0002
Inscriptions recto (typed in black): NASA/ AS8-16-2588
verso (typed in purple ink): [NASA logo] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/ HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058/ FOR RELEASE:/ PHOTO NO. / AS8-16-2588/ THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION ---- NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT./ It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee/ of commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mis-/lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters,/ books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also/ requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects./ COLOR/ DEC 1968 AS8-16-2588/ MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS/
APOLLO 8 EARTH VIEW----Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are/ visible in this view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. (HOLD/ PICTURE WITH EARTH AT BOTTOM LEFT) The large, most promi-./nent, land mass is the bulge of west Africa. The portion/ of Africa near the equator is dark and cloudy, but the more/ northerly portions are clear, showing the prominent cape/ at Dakar and the Senegal River in Senegal; Cap Blanc; the Adrar/ Plateau in Mauritania; the wide expanse of desert in Algeria/ and Spanish Sahara; and at the far edge, the Atlas and Anti-/Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Clouds cover the eastern coast/ of South America, southward from Surinam and Guyana to near/ the City of Salvador, Brazil.
verso (typed in purple ink): [NASA logo] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/ HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058/ FOR RELEASE:/ PHOTO NO. / AS8-16-2588/ THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION ---- NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT./ It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee/ of commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mis-/lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters,/ books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also/ requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects./ COLOR/ DEC 1968 AS8-16-2588/ MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS/
APOLLO 8 EARTH VIEW----Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are/ visible in this view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. (HOLD/ PICTURE WITH EARTH AT BOTTOM LEFT) The large, most promi-./nent, land mass is the bulge of west Africa. The portion/ of Africa near the equator is dark and cloudy, but the more/ northerly portions are clear, showing the prominent cape/ at Dakar and the Senegal River in Senegal; Cap Blanc; the Adrar/ Plateau in Mauritania; the wide expanse of desert in Algeria/ and Spanish Sahara; and at the far edge, the Atlas and Anti-/Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Clouds cover the eastern coast/ of South America, southward from Surinam and Guyana to near/ the City of Salvador, Brazil.
