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Blue marble nasa 1972.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Nasa has released several similar images of earth since then but they.
This original blue marble inspired later images of the earth compiled from satellite data.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
The blue marble from apollo 17.
This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.
It is one of the most iconic and among the most widely distributed images in human history.
On monday nasa released a photo of the entire sunlit side of earth the first since the original blue marble photo in 1972.
The original caption is reprinted below.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
Astronaut photograph as17 148 22727 courtesy nasa johnson space center gateway to astronaut photography of earth.
In 1972 from a distance of about 45 000 km 28 000 mi the crew of apollo 17 took one of the most famous photographs ever made of the earth.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Evans command module pilot.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
By 2002 we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire earth.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
The original caption is reprinted below.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
The blue marble from apollo 17.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Was in 1972 during apollo 17.
Data visualizer and designer robert simmon never thought that he would become mr.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
The original caption is reprinted below.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.