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 ...

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 ...

various satellites and craft have taken Blue Marble-style photos. The last notable one was in 2012, from the VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite) instrument aboard Suomi NPP ...

It would then beam this view—the whole planetary disk, a la The Blue Marble—down to the planet below. The video would be live streamed on the Internet. He couldn’t shake the idea.

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 ...

Let us know what you think. By The New York Times Update: We've heard from some readers who thought that the first updated "Blue Marble" photo was of the same region of the planet as the 1972 image.

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.

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 ...