Orbital panorama over the Earth from the US coast of Georgia and South Carolina to the western Atlantic Ocean, April 4, 1968

Unique collage of seven vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based paper, printed 1968, numbered "MSC AS6-2-1484" to "MSC AS6-2-1495" in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, overall size 28 x 89 cm, light crease in the upper left corner

An extraordinary panorama taken from Apollo 6, the final Earth orbital unmanned Apollo test mission of the giant Saturn V rocket that would take astronauts to the Moon.

The photographic mission of Apollo 6 was to photograph a whole orbit of the Earth in a color vertical sequence, which would begin at the end of the first orbit near New Orleans and terminate at the end of the second orbit over Baja California.
An automated 70mm Maurer still camera was mounted in the Command Module of the Apollo 6 vehicle to take some spectacular color stereo photographs.
The photographs were taken every 9 seconds, giving sufficient overlap between frames to precisely cover the entire orbital path.
The photographs were recovered with the capsule in the Pacific Ocean.

These were later found to be excellent for cartographic, topographic, and geographic studies of continental areas, coastal regions, and shallow waters. The camera photographed sections of the United States, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and the western Pacific Ocean, and had a haze-penetrating film and filter combination that provided better color balance and higher resolution than any photographs obtained during the Mercury and Gemini flights. (https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/the-legacy-of-apollo-6)

This abstract panorama showing sun glint over the cloud-covered ocean was taken from an altitude of about 190 km above the Earth as the spacecraft orbited southeastward (from left to right) from the coast of Georgia and South Carolina (from Altamaha Sound to Savannah River, latitude / longitude: 31.49 N, 82.07W) toward the western Atlantic Ocean (30.07N / 75.31 W).
The width of the ground track photographed is about 145 km wide.
Soon after this panorama was captured from the unmanned spacecraft, the 70mm Maurer camera ran out of color film over the Atlantic Ocean.