NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture a photograph of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon earlier this year.
The 2014 Earthrise picture was created by combining multiple images taken from a number of wavelengths by LRO's Wide Angle Camera (LROC) back on February 1, 2014, according to a NASA press release.
The camera on LRO was designed and implemented by researchers from Arizona State University.
The camera's advanced technology was described by Mark Robinson as "very different than most digital cameras."
It has significantly less pixels than most camera's sold today, but rather than focusing on taking a single photo, it captures a number of frames at a time, which is referred to as "push-frame."
LRO was launched back in 2009 to map the surface of the moon.
In the photo, Earth appears brighter than the Moon and shows colors that an average person wouldn't be able to see otherwise.
THE LRO moved forward while approaching the Moon's North Pole, allowing the LROC Wide Angle Camera to capture the Earth rising above Rozhdestvensky crater, according to the release.
LRO witnesses 12 "earthrises" every day. It is usually busy imaging the lunar surface when an "Earthrise" occurs, according to the release.
The photo comes over 45 years after the firs "Earthrise" photo was taken by the Apollo 8 crew in 1968.
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