The Blue Marble 1972

Blue marble image of the earth from apollo 17.

The blue marble 1972.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. The blue marble dec. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

Evans command module pilot. By 2002 we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire earth. The blue marble from apollo 17. 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.

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. Petsko a biochemist at weill cornell medical college wrote about the blue marble in an essay in 2011. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. 1 distinctive content included stories about children around the world and a pen pal club that encouraged intercultural communication.

Our whole planet suddenly in this image seemed tiny vulnerable and incredibly lonely against the vast blackness of the cosmos. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. 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. The original caption is reprinted below.

Nasa s earth observing system eos satellites were designed to give a check up of earth s health. 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. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.

7 1972 gregory a. 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 was the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap despite the southern hemisphere being heavily covered in clouds. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. And scientist astronaut harrison h. 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. This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972.

This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972. The original caption is reprinted below. 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.