December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualized our planet forever.
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Original title: The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires
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Author: Chari Larsson (Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University)
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Original title: The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires
The spinning ball earth is the mother of all hoaxes
It was NOT the first full-disk photograph taken from space. Read about the ATS-3 satellite in November of 1967.
That’s a digital image mosaic, a combination of images creating a bigger picture. The first single captured image of the whole Earth comes from the Apollo 17 mission.
@Cosmoknowledge Is the METHOD used really the determining factor? It still marked the first time a full-disk COLOR image of the Earth was seen from space. I’m baffled as to why the Apollo 17 image was taken to be so memorable – seeing the whole Earth against the lonely backdrop of empty space should have had the same effect in 1967 as it did in 1972. Heck, Apollo 10 took similar images on their way to the Moon – in May of 1969 (although the Earth was only about 95% full).
and, the dumb masses still believe this crap!
Amazing fakery
Actually this (and most versions of the Blue Marble pic) is upside down. The original photo showed the Southern Hemisphere on the top. This confused people so reproductions were published upside down to meet people’s expectations.
Well, upside down, downside up, that’s all relative and the universe doesn’t care about that. 😄❤️
@Cosmoknowledge But photographers do.
Dark City
The first photo? Must be more than 1 😂