Blue marble image of the earth from apollo 17.
The blue marble 1972.
1 distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen pal club that encouraged intercultural communication.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
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 from the planet s surface.
Our whole planet suddenly in this image seemed tiny vulnerable and incredibly lonely against the vast blackness of the cosmos.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Petsko a biochemist at weill cornell medical college wrote about the blue marble in an essay in 2011.
Big blue marble was a half hour children s television series that ran from 1974 to 1983 on numerous syndicated and pbs tv stations.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
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.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
Evans command module pilot.
The blue marble is a famous photograph 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 kilometers 18 000 miles.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The original caption is reprinted below.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Nasa s earth observing system eos satellites were designed to give a check up of earth s health.
By 2002 we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire earth.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
7 1972 gregory a.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
The blue marble from apollo 17.
This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.
The last time anyone took a photograph from above low earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere one side of a globe was in 1972 during apollo 17.
The blue marble dec.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
The original caption is reprinted below.