Apollo 17 Big Blue Marble. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a. By 2002 we finally had enough data to make a snap shot of the entire earth.
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.
At the time of publication it represented the best available science.
The blue marble from apollo 17 this classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972. Earth april 19 2020 the blue marble. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Some say it was the crew of apollo 8 who reached and orbited the moon in 1968.
