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Summary

The Blue Marble

Photographer

NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans

Title

The Blue Marble

Part of

Apollo 17

Object type

photograph

Genre

astrophotography

Description

Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,400 kilometres (18,300 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Date

7 December 1972

Medium

1 photograph: Hasselblad 500EL, Zeiss Planar 80 mm f/2.8 and 70mm Kodak Ektachrome film of type SO-368

Collection

This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: AS17-148-22727.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Notes

The end of most film magazines used on the Apollo missions include a photograph, presumably taken on earth, of a "KODAK Color Control Patch" on a chart containing mission and camera data. This color chart was used to calibrate the above photograph to better approximate real-world colors.
Earth disk center rough coordinates: 26°19’49”S 37°25’13”E

References

https://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/17/Hasselblad%20500EL%2070%20mm

Source

http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/17/Hasselblad%20500EL%2070%20mm https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/21081863984/

Other versions

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Other versions:

Raw photograph, AS17-148-22727, original orientation
Raw photograph, AS17-148-22727, north up
Rescanned and color-calibrated with mission color chart.
3,000×3,000 (5.6 MB)
With white background
2,790×2,776 (4.4 MB)
With transparent background
2,790×2,776 (14.64 MB)
Larger photoshopped JPEG version; possibly more useful for articles
4,463×4,163 (5.9 MB)
Color corrected
2,320×2,407 (2.33 MB)
Image redone with colors
2,400x2,400 (3.33 MB)
Reversed (allegedly original) orientation
3,000×3,002 (9.33 MB)
'"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth'
2,400x2,400 (2.98 MB)

Derivative works:

earth
600x600 (1.72 MB)
GPS atmospheric effects for the Earth
Universal gravitational mass for the Earth
Order of magnitude for the Sun, Jupiter, Earth, and Moon
Earth size comparison for the Moon
Earth size comparison for the planet Venus
Earth and Moon to scale with annotations
Earth-Moon system to scale
Origin of life stages

Object location	26° 19′ 49″ S, 37° 25′ 13″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	-26.330278; 37.420278

Licensing

	This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
	Warnings: Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:12, 7 July 2024	3,000 × 3,000 (5.44 MB)	Gabldotink	jpegoptim --keep-all --strip-none --all-normal
	14:12, 26 February 2022	3,000 × 3,000 (5.69 MB)	CactiStaccingCrane	cropped by 2 pixels to get a perfect 3000 by 3000
	00:59, 16 February 2022	3,000 × 3,002 (5.3 MB)	Aaron1a12	Added slight tilt as published by NASA
	23:22, 15 February 2022	3,000 × 3,002 (4.91 MB)	Aaron1a12	EV lowered
	21:36, 4 February 2022	3,000 × 3,002 (5.23 MB)	Aaron1a12	Uploaded a work by The Crew of Apollo 17 from NASA/JSC/ASU with UploadWizard