Clouds swirl over the vast African continent and south polar ice cap, all set against the deep blue of our world’s oceans. The iconic photo, known as “Blue Marble,” was taken by NASA ...

The Blue Marble photo, though, has proven to be the crew’s best known legacy. NASA released the image on Saturday, December 23, 1972, and it made the front page of most newspapers over that ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history ...

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 ...

Still, the "Blue Marble" didn't resonate immediately. The image wasn't splashed across the front page of newspapers around the globe, partly because it faced stiff competition from other news stories.