Have you ever had that sinking feeling?
At 1039 GMT on 7 December 1972 Jack Schmitt from the crew of Apollo 17 took one of the most iconic, and certainly most reproduced photographs of all time. NASA named it photograph AS17-148-22727, but very shortly after the picture went public it became known as ‘the blue marble’. It is of course the picture of the near full-earth disk taken on route to the moon, with the sun directly behind the Apollo 17 spacecraft. Interestingly it was not the first of these kinds of images from of earth.
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