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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.
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“Even on the Antarctic Peninsula – this most extreme, remote and isolated ‘wilderness’ region – the landscape is changing, and these effects are visible from space.” Antarctica, the ...
The striking image, captured from 438 miles high, illustrates “the power of the wind,” said Christopher Shuman, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in a statement.
This photo was taken just before a second shot with the same perspective was taken, which became cropped and processed the widely used Blue Marble picture (AS17-148-22727). [51] [52] July–September 1973 Skylab 3: Early color image of an aurora by a human from space. [53] [54] [image needed] 1977 KH-11: First real-time satellite imagery. [55]
The Geographic South Pole is marked by the stake on the right NASA image showing Antarctica and the South Pole in 2005. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the point in the Southern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
Image: NASA "These images were taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT on July 16, showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America," the agency said in a statement. "The North ...