The Blue Marble

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.

The Blue Marble Media

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  • Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Ar
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  AS17-148-22727, from which The Blue Marble was cropped

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  Blue Marble 2012 – a composite satellite image

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  Black Marble – North and South America at night, Hurricane Sandy can be seen off the coast of Florida.

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  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

Related pages

• Earth phase
• Extraterrestrial sky
• Pale Orange Dot (Early Earth)
• Spaceship Earth