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.
Blue marbles earth.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Published october 9 2007.
To celebrate nasa s newest photo of earth here s a look at some of the ones that came before it.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Introduce students to geologic processes on earth and how to identify geologic features in images.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
A new weather satellite has relayed its first images of earth back to scientists and the new collection which includes an updated version of the iconic blue marble image of earth is simply.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
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.
Pictures of earth from 1972 to today.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
We ll call the above image blue marble i.
Evans command module pilot.