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Blue Marble:

Apollo 17 - 1972

The Apollo 17 "Blue Marble" is one of the most famous and widely reproduced photographs in human history, offering a rare, fully illuminated view of our planet.

Mission: Apollo 17 (the last crewed mission to the Moon).

Date Taken: December 7, 1972.

Location: The crew took the picture while the spacecraft was about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from Earth, about five hours after launch and on their way to the Moon.

The Shot: This specific trajectory allowed the Sun to be directly behind the astronauts, fully illuminating the Earth—a rare condition in space photography. It was the first time humans captured a full view of the Earth from pole to pole. The image clearly shows the entire coastline of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Antarctica south polar ice cap, and a large cyclone in the Indian Ocean.

Photographer Credit: The official NASA credit is usually given to the entire Apollo 17 crew (Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt). While there is some ambiguity, it is widely believed that Harrison Schmitt took the photo, as the crew passed the Hasselblad camera around and he was taking many of the Earth photos at the time.

The Last Human Photo: To this day, the "Blue Marble" is one of the last photographs of the whole Earth taken by a human being, as subsequent full-disk images are generally composite mosaics stitched together from satellite data

Image Credit: NASA