![]() ![]() The iconic blue marble photo was taken on Decemas the Apollo 17 spacecraft departed Earth for the moon. Below I describe 10 of the views, including some animations, that I found most striking (click on images to enlarge). We often take the 30,000-foot view here at EcoWest, trying to understand mega-trends in the American West, but occasionally it’s worth stepping back even farther, to many millions of miles away, so we can see the truly big picture. NASA’s next generation of blue marble images can be downloaded as very high-resolution files that allow you to zoom in on an area of interest (see our earlier post to learn about similar, high-res images of the Earth’s vegetation). They’re also useful in creating presentations. I find these images captivating, even mesmerizing. I stumbled upon some of these images while surfing the Web recently and have collected my favorites in a PowerPoint deck that you download at the bottom of this post. In the four decades since the blue marble was captured on film, other astronauts and unmanned spacecraft have trained their lenses on the Earth, sometimes while in orbit, other times while racing toward another celestial body. The “blue marble,” a 1972 color photograph of the Earth from the Apollo 17 spacecraft, has also been credited with expanding environmental awareness around the globe and highlighting the vulnerability of our home planet. It’s been called one of the most famous and widely distributed images in human history. ![]()
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