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 '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 ...

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 camera would capture an image of the fully sun-lit globe of Earth, a la the “Blue Marble.” The antenna would beam the image to Earth, where it could be seen live on the Internet.

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 ...