The "Blue Marble" image of Earth snapped by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 is one of the most famous photos ever taken. When it appeared, we all suddenly saw the world in a much different way.

Blue Marble, Western Hemisphere ... has to pass over the same exact spot at the top each time. To capture the White Marble composite, 15 passes were needed. The 14 daily passes captured most ...

The Blue Marble photograph, taken by the Apollo 17 ... with the deep blue of the oceans, the white of the clouds, and the browns, greens, and whites of the continents all visible.

It’s an iconic photo of our home planet: The wispy white clouds and ... sending back stunning photos that some have compared to the original ‘Blue Marble’ pic. The mission is a test of ...

The Blue Marble wasn't the first image of Earth from space, however. In 1946, just after the end of World War II, grainy black-and-white photos of our planet from space were captured by a 35 ...

The first photos taken of Earth from space were momentous ... In December 2022, Nasa’s new Blue Marble photograph was compared with the original image at the University of Portsmouth’s ...

If you think the photo was the ubiquitous “blue marble”-style photograph ... That honor went to the black-and-white image you see above. The photo was taken by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 ...