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The Blue Marble: This photo is of Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula as taken en route to the Moon by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt on December 7, 1972. The flight marked the last time that humans left low Earth orbit and the first and only time a geologist, Harrison Schmitt, travelled to the moon.
This photo is upside-down; in the original photo the south pole is at the top.[1]
The original caption:
- View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of Africa is the Malagasy Republic. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the northeast.
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This image is a low compression JPEG version of The Earth seen from Apollo 17.png, which itself was taken from NASA [2].
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December 7, 1972.
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Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. File Name AS17-148-22727
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This photo with white background is available at Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17 trsp back.jpg |
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This image was selected as a picture of the day for August 20, 2006. It was captioned as followed:
Deutsch: Blick auf die Erde von der Apollo 17.
العربية: الارض كما شوهدت من ابولو 17.
Dansk: Jorden set fra Apollo 17
Deutsch: Blick auf die Erde von der Apollo 17.
Galego: The Blue Marble: Fotografía da Terra tomada, o 7 de decembro de 1972, pola tripulación do Apollo 17 na súa ruta cara a Lúa. Mostra África, a Antártida e a península Arábiga. Foi tomada a unha distancia de 45.000 km aproximadamente
Português: A Terra vista desde a Apollo 17.
Bân-lâm-gú: Tiàm Apollo 17-hō thài-kong pe-chûn téng-kôan, iōng thian-bûn-kiàⁿ khòaⁿ tē-kiû ê kéng-tì.
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See too the same image without background.
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