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<big>'''Our "Blue Marble" '''</big>
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble#/media/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg <small>Photo NASA via Wikipedia</small>]
 
 
<big>'''"Blue Marble" from Apollo 17'''</big>
 
:'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble Image AS17-148-22727] -- December 7, 1972'''
:'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble Image AS17-148-22727] -- December 7, 1972'''


::'''... the first photograph and only one ever snapped by a human being of the whole round Earth'''
::'''First 'Whole Earth' photograph taken by a human being.'''
 
 
 
''"As they left home, the crew had a superb view of the full disc of the Earth, lit from horizon to horizon. Behind the camera was Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, a geologist and geophysicist who, according to [Apollo Director of Photography, Richard] Underwood, understood the essential value of pictures of the planet Earth as you moved away...
 
''I kept telling Jack... that will be the classic picture. Make sure you get it after you go translunar... that one's at 28,000 miles. That's a perfect picture and he aimed it beautifully.' "''
 
: -- ''Apollo Moon Missions, Transcript (©1998)''
 


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"As they left home, the crew had a superb view of the full disc of the Earth, lit from horizon to horizon. Behind the camera was Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, a geologist and geophysicist who, according to [Apollo Director of Photography, Richard] Underwood, 'understood the essential value of pictures of the planet Earth as you moved away... I kept telling Jack... that will be the classic picture. Make sure you get it after you go translunar... that one's at 28,000 miles. That's a perfect picture and he aimed it beautifully.'" -- ''Apollo Moon Missions (©1998)''


'''NASA's Blue Marble public photo gallery'''


The Blue Marble photo account -- http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/html/as17-148-22727.html
:*https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection


:http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/
:*http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/html/as17-148-22727.html


:*http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/


NASA released the Blue Marble photo on Christmas Eve 1972 -- four years to the day after Apollo 8's [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_Earth_350x350.jpg Earthrise] photo.




Astronaut Cernan: "You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and... it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."
NASA originally released the "Blue Marble" photo on Christmas Eve 1972 -- four years to the day after Apollo 8's Christmas eve [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_Earth_350x350.jpg "Earthrise"] photo.




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Astronaut Cernan: ''"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and... it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."''


:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection


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<big>'''"Earthrise" on Christmas Eve'''</big>




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'''Apollo 8's Earthrise photo -- December 24th'''... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_Earth_350x350.jpg from the Moon...]  
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_Earth_350x350.jpg '''As Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, December 24th, 1968''']  


"The Earthrise photograph in 1968 and the Blue Marble photograph in 1972 between them frame the Apollo Moon programme. They also represent the beginning and the summit of whole Earth awareness. But while the Earthrise showed the Earth in space, 'Blue marble' showed the Earth alone. Filling the frame, centered on Africa (mankind's place of origin), and looking both alone and alive, its message was not 'space' but 'home'. It was a record of a particular historical moment: mankind's last trip (to date) beyond Earth's orbit..." -- ''Earthrise (©2008)''


''"The Earthrise photograph of 1968 and the Blue Marble photograph of 1972... They represent the beginning and the summit of whole Earth awareness. But while the Earthrise showed the Earth in space, 'Blue marble' showed the Earth alone. Filling the frame, centered on Africa (mankind's place of origin), and looking both alone and alive, its message was not 'space' but 'home'. It was a record of a particular historical moment: mankind's last trip (to date) beyond Earth's orbit..."'' -- ''Earthrise''
   


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<big>'''Blue-Thoughts as we spin thru space...'''</big>
'''Blue-thoughts spinning thru space...'''


:http://io9.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448
:• http://io9.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448




<big>'''Memories of 'Earthrise'...'''</big>
'''Memories of "Earthrise" as astronauts circled the moon, months before [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Apollo11 Apollo 11] when humans first walked on the Moon, July 20th, 1969'''


:http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/earthrise.html
:• http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/earthrise.html


:• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]
:* <small>https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf</small>
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'''Looking back at Earth from DSCOVR'''
:'''December 24, Christmas Eve 2015'''
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Latest revision as of 19:08, 18 August 2024


Photo NASA via Wikipedia


"Blue Marble" from Apollo 17

Image AS17-148-22727 -- December 7, 1972
First 'Whole Earth' photograph taken by a human being.


"As they left home, the crew had a superb view of the full disc of the Earth, lit from horizon to horizon. Behind the camera was Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, a geologist and geophysicist who, according to [Apollo Director of Photography, Richard] Underwood, understood the essential value of pictures of the planet Earth as you moved away...

I kept telling Jack... that will be the classic picture. Make sure you get it after you go translunar... that one's at 28,000 miles. That's a perfect picture and he aimed it beautifully.' "

-- Apollo Moon Missions, Transcript (©1998)


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NASA's Blue Marble public photo gallery


NASA originally released the "Blue Marble" photo on Christmas Eve 1972 -- four years to the day after Apollo 8's Christmas eve "Earthrise" photo.


Astronaut Cernan: "You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and... it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."


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"Earthrise" on Christmas Eve


Apollo Earth 350x350.jpg


As Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, December 24th, 1968


"The Earthrise photograph of 1968 and the Blue Marble photograph of 1972... They represent the beginning and the summit of whole Earth awareness. But while the Earthrise showed the Earth in space, 'Blue marble' showed the Earth alone. Filling the frame, centered on Africa (mankind's place of origin), and looking both alone and alive, its message was not 'space' but 'home'. It was a record of a particular historical moment: mankind's last trip (to date) beyond Earth's orbit..." -- Earthrise


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Blue-thoughts spinning thru space...

• http://io9.com/the-real-story-of-apollo-17-and-why-we-never-went-ba-1670503448


Memories of "Earthrise" as astronauts circled the moon, months before Apollo 11 when humans first walked on the Moon, July 20th, 1969

• http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/home/earthrise.html
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement


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Looking back at Earth from DSCOVR

December 24, Christmas Eve 2015


DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png


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