>>3400351Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty amazing and beautiful photos in their own right. Just to me, Earthrise is the cumulation of an extraordinary amount of work and resources, resulting in humankind achieving an absolutely incredible feat. For most young people today going to space is just a thing that happens but only 50 years ago that was nothing but dreams, and a seemingly impossible one that that.
Then when you couple the technical factors and how much it represents about human ingenuity, it is also incredibly humbling. It puts Earth, to some degree, to scale, and shows how much we have out there. This is why I also love Pale Blue Dot (pic related). Carl Sagan's monologue on Pale Blue Dot is incredible.
