Get Wild: ‘The Blue Marble’ — an image that changed our perception of Earth

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Get Wild: ‘The Blue Marble’ — an image that changed our perception of Earth

“The Blue Marble” is the first fully illuminated photograph of Earth taken from outer space in 1972 by the Apollo 17 crew as they made their way to the moon.  Though blurry and partial images of Earth, most taken by satellite, had been published throughout the 1960s, “The Blue Marble” is the first complete color image of Earth taken by a human astronaut. More important than the moon rocks they collected, this photo shows the Earth in the center …