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The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
Full Earth showing Africa and Antarctica Apollo 17 hand-held Hasselblad picture of the full Earth. This picture was taken on 7 December 1972, as the spacecraft traveled to the moon as the last of the Apollo missions. A remarkably cloud-free Africa is at upper left, stretching down to the center of the image.
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Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
First full-disk picture of both Earth and the Moon. [35] February 14, 1990 The Pale Blue Dot is the first image of Earth from beyond all of the other Solar System planets. It is part of the first picture of the full extent of the planetary system, known as the Family Portrait. [19] [56] December 11, 1990 Galileo: First movie of a full rotation ...
The following are images from various world-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 Exaggerated illustration of Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun, marking that the orbital extreme points ( apoapsis and periapsis ) are not the same as the four seasonal extreme points, the equinox and solstice (from Earth )
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a NASA astronaut, observing Earth from the Cupola module at the International Space Station on 11 September 2010. Human cultures have developed many views of the planet. [279] The standard astronomical symbols of Earth are a quartered circle, , [280] representing the four corners of the world, and a globus cruciger, .
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