To learn more about the development of nasa s imagery of the earth as a whole read the history of the blue marble.
Blue marble picture nasa.
Night lights 2012 the black marble.
Evans command module pilot.
Published december 6 2012.
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.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
In sharing these blue marble images nasa hopes the public will join with the agency in its continuing exploration of our world from the unique perspective of space.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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.
Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.