The iconic "Blue Marble" image of the Earth isolated in space, swathed in wispy white clouds above azure seas and the verdant plains of Africa, has inspired environmentalists and climate change ...

The newly released moon pics aren't the first exciting imagery that Blue Ghost has beamed home. The lander also witnessed a solar eclipse and has captured beautiful "blue marble" views of Earth.

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 ...

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 iconic photo, known as “Blue Marble,” was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene “Gene” Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on December 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens ...

But you may not know the full story behind this unique view of Earth. The so-called "Blue Marble" photo was taken 50 years ago on December 7, 1972 during the last Apollo mission to the moon.

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.