The Blue Marble
File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg
The Blue Marble— Earth as seen by Apollo 17 in 1972
The Blue Marble is a photograph of the Earth. It was made on December 2, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft. At that time they were on their way to the Moon at a distance of about 18,000 miles (29,000 km) from the Earth. It is one of the most reproduced images in human history.[1]
The Blue Marble Media
- AS17-148-22727.med.png
Apollo 17 image AS17-148-22727, commonly referred to as "The Blue Marble"
- North America from low orbiting satellite Suomi NPP.jpg
Blue Marble 2012 – a composite satellite image
- Black Marble Americas.jpg
Black Marble – North and South America at night, Hurricane Sandy can be seen off the coast of Florida.
- Blue Marble December 7 2022.jpg
A color-corrected image of the Earth taken by the DSCOVR satellite on December 7, 2022, exactly 50 years after the original Blue Marble image
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References
- ↑ Petsko, Gregory A (2011). "The blue marble". Genome Biology. 12 (4): 112. doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-112. PMC 3218853. PMID 21554751.[dead link]
