Earth Day at 50: How Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' photo helped spark the first celebration

The iconic "Earthrise" image snapped by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders from lunar orbit on Dec. 24, 1968, showed our planet as it really is: a lonely and fragile outpost of life suspended in an endless, inky-black void.

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