This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Blue marble picture apollo 8.
Although not a blue marble as it s in black and white lunar orbiter 1 took an earlier earthrise photo on august 23 1966.
Apollo 8 s earthrise photo changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
This is the first picture of the earth from lunar orbit.
View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
From the great distance of the moon nearly the entire western hemisphere is visible.
On december 7 1972 the crew of apollo 17 changed the way we look at our home planet.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
This photograph illustrates the earth as an isolated ecosystem floating in space.
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.
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.
Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
T his photograph is now half a century old.
Earthrise was followed by blue marble a view of the earth taken from the apollo 17 spacecraft in 1972.
The new collection is called the blue marble.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
Evans command module pilot.
It was taken by the astronaut bill anders on christmas eve 1968 as the apollo 8 spacecraft rounded the dark side of the moon for a fourth time.
That was the last of the apollo moon missions but nasa s space probes continued to take.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
The home planet as seen from lunar orbit christmas.