NASA Gets an Instagram Account
Goddard and Ames already had accounts.
NASA has an Instagram account .
Oh, yes: Now, between pictures of cats, lunches, friends, and your friend’s cat’s lunch, you can view space photography. Today the account has declared a moon theme, and, accordingly, it has posted:
- A picture of the moon from the Earth.
- A picture of the moon, taken from a space station whizzing around the Earth .
- A picture of the Earth from the moon .
In fact, it’s the famous Earthrise shot , taken by Apollo 11 in June 1969:
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