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Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Blue Marble Apollo 17
THE BLUE MARBLE FROM APOLLO 17The Blue Marble from Apollo 17Credit: Image courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on December 7, 1972. The original caption is reprinted below:View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.Continue reading “Blue Marble Apollo 17”
amnhnyc: Yesterday, NASA released this new view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. This color image of Earth was taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite. At the request of the whitehouse, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium,Continue reading
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