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Image title	Zond 8, a member of the Soviet Union's Zond program, was launched from an Earth orbiting platform, Tyazheliy Sputnik (70-088B), towards the Moon. The announced objectives were investigations of the moon and circumlunar space and testing of onboard systems and units. The spacecraft obtained photographs of Earth from a distance of 64,480 km. The spacecraft transmitted flight images of Earth for three days. Zond 8 flew past the Moon on October 24, 1970, at a distance of 1110.4 km and obtained both black and white and color photographs of the lunar surface. Scientific measurements were also obtained during the flight. Zond 8 reentered Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Indian Ocean on October 27, 1970. Zond 8, October 24, 1970
Author	Soviet Space Program/USGS/Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures
Width	3,000 px
Height	1,633 px
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Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
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Software used	Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 Macintosh
File change date and time	21:22, 3 April 2014
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Date metadata was last modified	17:22, 3 April 2014
Date and time of digitizing	14:20, 3 April 2014
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Short title	Earthrise over the Moon
IIM version	2