The Blue Marble is arguably one of the most famous photographs of all time, so it makes perfect sense to use this beloved image as a test for a powerful new climate modeling program on one of the ...

But no other photograph ever made of planet Earth has ever felt at-once so momentous and somehow so manageable, so companionable, as “Blue Marble” — the famous picture taken December 7 ...

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 ...

Among those images was the one now known as the Blue Marble shot, the first photograph ever taken of the planet in its entirety. The Blue Marble photo, showing Earth as Apollo 17 astronauts saw it.