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An eclipse on the way home 📸

#OTD in 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts captured a photograph of the eclipse of the Sun on their return to Earth. The view was created when the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

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Earth Eclipses the Sun - Apollo 12 – Moon: NASA Science

This photograph of the eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon.
Moon: NASA Science
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bleak!
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so cool. any idea what film was used to capture the image?

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