The Blue Marble

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— Earth as seen by Apollo 17 in 1972

Related pages

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

References

1. Petsko, Gregory A (2011). "The blue marble". Genome Biology. 12 (4): 112. doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-112. PMC 3218853. PMID 21554751.^{[permanent dead link]}