A look at the impact of NASA's iconic Blue Marble photo of Earth.
photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualized our planet forever.film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is believed to be the most reproduced image of all time. Up until this point, our view of ourselves had been disconnected and fragmented: there was no way to visualize the planet in its entirety.
The Apollo 17 crew was on their way to the moon when the photograph was captured at 29,000 kilometers from the Earth. It quickly became a symbol of harmony and unity.shows a partial Earth, rising up from the moon’s surface., the Earth appears in the center of the frame, floating in space. It is possible to clearly see the African continent, as well as the Antarctica south polar ice cap.are quite hard to capture.
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