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Image refaite directement à partir du fichier source NASA AS17-148-22727. 07:42, 17 October 2010: 3,000 × 3,002 (6.21 MB) Huntster: Reverted to version as of 02:25, 31 July 2005; new image is (in my opinion) technically inferior to the July 2005 image, and is not the featured picture that was voted upon. Upload new image to another filename ...
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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.
From the original Blue Marble photo shot back in 1972 to the new high-definition Blue Marble images to a screen shot of the very first video image of Earth taken by a weather satellite in 1960 ...
In 1972, the very first photo showing Earth in its entirety made its debut. Since then, many similar 'Blue Marble' pictures have followed.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
The Chinese government has a released a series of stunning high definition images taken from space by a state-of-the-art satellite. China's Gaofen-1 satellite was launched in April 2013.
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