Image: The Earth seen from Apollo 17
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Description: "The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.
Title: The Blue Marble
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/115334main_image_feature_329_ys_full.jpg Alt: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001138.html (direct link)
Author: NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans
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The following 41 pages link to this image:
- 20th century
- Apollo 17
- Apollo program
- Blue
- Coriolis effect
- Earth
- Earth phase
- Ecology
- Ecoregion
- Ecozone
- Environmentalism
- Flat Earth
- Fresh water
- Gaia hypothesis
- Gene Cernan
- Gould Belt
- Hadley cell
- Harrison Schmitt
- Holism
- Life
- Light clock
- Modern history
- Nature
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Observable universe
- Physical system
- Polar ice cap
- Solar System
- Space exploration
- Spaceship Earth
- Sustainable development
- The Blue Marble
- Time dilation
- World
- World peace
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