December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph.
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film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is believed to be the most reproduced image of all time. Up until this point, our view of ourselves had been disconnected and fragmented: there was no way to visualize the planet in its entirety. The Apollo 17 crew were on their way to the Moon when the photograph was captured at 29,000 kilometers from Earth. It quickly became a symbol of harmony and unity.shows a partial Earth, rising up from the Moon's surface.In Blue Marble, Earth appears in the centre of the frame, floating in space. It is possible to clearly see the African continent, as well as the Antarctica south polar ice cap.
Photographs like Blue Marble are quite hard to capture. To see Earth as a full globe floating in space, lighting needs to be calculated carefully. The Sun needs to be directly behind you. Astronaut Scott Kelly observes that this can be" between the United States and the Soviet Union, the photograph revealed an unexpectedly neutral view of Earth with no borders.
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