Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The rising of the earth above the horizon as seen from the moon.
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- noun The time of "day" when the
Earth begins to rise over thehorizon of anotherplanet according to a local observer. - noun The irregular event of the
Earth appearing above the horizon of themoon .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everest, but I just learned that the STS-130 patch was inspired by the "earthrise" photo that Dennis Wingo and our team at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project released in Nov. 2008.
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They eventually agreed to let me have it and 'earthrise' went on to become the official Earth Summit album and also a no. 1 album in the UK charts.
Rhythms del Mundo 2006
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They eventually agreed to let me have it and 'earthrise' went on to become the official Earth Summit album and also a no. 1 album in the UK charts.
Rhythms del Mundo 2006
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As the capsule curved round the edge of the Moon, it was creating the only kind of earthrise that was possible-a man-made one.
The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962
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And the great symbol remains, that remarkable view of earthrise.
Jillian Burt: Grinderman is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch 2010
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In November 2008, the team recovered their first image: a famous picture of an earthrise taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on 23 August 1966.
NASA Watch: Space & Planetary Science: March 2010 Archives 2010
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In November 2008, the team recovered their first image: a famous picture of an earthrise taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on 23 August 1966.
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Can you imagine it sending chills up your spine and tears in your eyes such as when the crew of Apollo 8 read Genesis on live TV on Christmas eve from the moon, as we saw earthrise for the first time in human history?
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At on point, he shows two pictures of earth, one with the sun almost directly being Apollo 17; the other, the first image from space, from the moon, generally called earthrise.
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They saw not sunrise, but earthrise from out there by the moon.
vanishedone commented on the word earthrise
B.B.C.: 'Forty years ago, the largest TV audience in history tuned in to watch the Apollo 8 crew reach lunar orbit.It was during this mission that the famous "Earthrise" image was captured, changing forever our perception of the planet and its place in space.'
December 30, 2008