Citations:earthrise

English citations of earthrise

• 2001, Project STAR: The Universe in Your Hands. Teacher's guide with activity worksheet masters, Kendall Hunt, →ISBN, page 72:

  ... earthrises or earthsets. (The famous Apollo 8 photograph labeled " Earthrise ” is based on the Earth rising above the Moon due to the orbital motion of the spacecraft around the Moon.) 5. Although Venus undergoes phases similar to […]

• 2014 April 1, Edgar Mitchell, Ellen Mahoney, Earthrise: My Adventures as an Apollo 14 Astronaut, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 92:

  ... earthrise. Earthrise, I thought. I'm not looking at a sunrise; I'm looking at an earthrise. “It's a beautiful sight to see Earth from here,” I told Mission Control. Finally it was time for Alan and me to put on our spacesuits again and […]

• 2022 May 18, Jerry Salloum, Our World-God's Visible Language: Visible Creation as Testimony to an Invisible Creator, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 302:

  ... Earthrises viewed from the Moon are only possible while in orbit about that object. Since the orbital period of astronaut Michael Collins' Command Module was once every two hours, he observed an earthrise every two hours. An earthrise […]

• 2017 November 14, Sheri Amsel, Sheryl Racine, Tom Robinson, Joseph Snedeker, Kathi Wagner, The Everything Kids' Science Bundle: The Everything® Kids' Astronomy Book; The Everything® Kids' Human Body Book; The Everything® Kids' Science Experiments Book; The Everything® Kids' Weather Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

  ... Earthrises (sort of like our sunrises) are beautiful. If you don't like the long days of winter, a job on the far side of moon sure wouldn't be for you. Getting so many rays on the near side probably wouldn't be that much fun, either […]

• 2019, David Aguilar, Luna: The Science and Stories of Our Moon, National Geographic Children's Books, →ISBN, page 53:

  ... Earthrises or Earthsets. In fact, our home world never even moves across the lunar sky. It just hangs there in the same place, slowly undergoing phase changes. Without an atmosphere, temperatures on the moon vary dramatically […]

• 2003 May 6, Timothy Roesch, PsiChosis, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 5:

  ... Earthrises are beautiful up there on the moon. And the night sky. . .there's no end to the number of stars in that sky. Too bad all that beauty is wasted on people who can't see it through all the petty, bureaucratic posturing and […]

• 2018 July 26, Peter Sloterdijk, What Happened in the Twentieth Century?: Towards a Critique of Extremist Reason, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

  ... Earthrises and Earthsets every day. This small group's privilege of observing such a spectacle immediately leads to a radical transformation of our image of the world. Whereas modern humans believe in the possibility of finding a […]