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 ...

The so-called "Blue Marble" photo was taken 50 years ago on ... The Lunar Module "Challenger" is in the left background behind the flag. (NASA photo) Cernan, meanwhile, became known as the last ...

The 'Blue Marble,' taken 18,000 miles away from Earth ... I spacecraft took that shows both Earth and the Moon in the background. Orion took the snapshot around its maximum distance from Earth ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history ...

The "Blue Marble" image of Earth snapped by the crew of Apollo 17 in 1972 is one of the most famous photos ever taken. When it appeared, we all suddenly saw the world in a much different way.

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 "Blue Marble" was the first photograph of the whole Earth and the only one ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

Since the Android P Beta, the Pixel’s Marvelous Marble background has failed to consistently ... Inspired by Apollo 17’s Blue Marble, view your location from space with real-time clouds ...