Taken by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt of the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, it is one of the most reproduced images in history.

On January 25, 2012, NASA released a composite image of the Western Hemisphere of Earth titled Blue Marble 2012. In 2002, NASA released an extensive set of satellite-captured imagery, including prepared images suitable for direct human viewing, as well as complete sets suitable for use in preparing further works. In addition to images, scientific information will be uploaded as it becomes available after in-flight calibration is complete.Explore this exquisitely accurate Globe and discover more than 50 rivers, islands, lakes, ice-caps, deserts, rainforests, and mountain ranges in amazing detail.

Commencing in the 1990s, NASA created digitally manipulated whole-Earth images titled Blue Marble: Next Generation, in honour of the original Apollo 17 mission. By removing the graticule – the grid of meridians and parallels humans place over the globe – the image represented an earth freed from mapping practices that had been in place for hundreds of years. The Lunar Module Pilot on that crew was Jack Schmitt, a Harvard-trained geologist who was a scientist-astronaut. The spatial resolution of the color images is about 10 km (6 miles), and the resolution of the science products will be about 20 km (10 miles). This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica South polar ice cap.

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LEO's objective was to "make the state of the Earth visible at global and local scale", but Dr Muller said it had "taken many years to bring together the necessary technology". The photographs create a sense of vastness and awe that can leave the spectator overwhelmed, akin to 19th century Romantic paintings such as Thomas Moran’s The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872). This meant launching toward a nearly full moon, which in turn meant departing from Florida at night. The EPIC instrument views the Earth from sunrise in the west to sunset in the east 12 to 13 times per day as the Earth rotates at 15 degrees of longitude per hour. Taken with a Hasselblad film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is believed to be the most reproduced image of all time.But today, NASA commissioned EPIC to take images every 13 minutes for three hours, creating an almost real-time view of the planet. Because it's in the public domain it has been used for everything from car commercials to the Earth Day flag, printed on T-shirts, postage stamps, billboards, book covers, mouse pads -- most any surface you can print on. The nighttime views were obtained with the new satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight.

The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.If use of the Earth Oil Overlay is desired, allow the Earth Oil to dry for 24 hours before application of the Overlay. It can also be used to stunning effect on Fired Earth’s gorgeous roll top baths that require painting. That's what happened on Apollo 17 when the spacecraft was some 28,000 miles from Earth and crossing the path between it and the sun.