John is a science and technology journalist and Space.com contributor. He received his B.A. in English and his M.A. in Computer Science from the City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and has bylines with TechRadar, Live Science, and other publications. You can find him on Twitter at @thisdotjohn or seeking out dark sky country for spectacular views of the cosmos.
On the left, the original Blue Marble photo taken by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972. On the left, a computer's recreation that tested a cutting-edge climate model.
The Blue Marble is arguably one of the most famous photographs of all time, so it makes perfect sense to use this beloved image as a test for a powerful new climate modeling program on one of the world's most powerful computers. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany set out to recreate the iconic image using nothing but the climate simulation and weather data from 1972.
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