“The Blue Marble” is the first fully illuminated photograph of Earth taken from outer space in 1972 by the Apollo 17 crew as they made their way to the moon. Though blurry and partial images of ...

But while “Blue Marble” didn’t create an overnight revolution, it came to play an important role in the growing environmental movement. The first Earth Day had been celebrated on April 22, 1970.

Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University. Dec. 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The astronauts of NASA's Apollo 17 spacecraft — the last ...

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

But while “Blue Marble” didn’t create an overnight revolution, it came to play an important role in the growing environmental movement. The first Earth Day had been celebrated on April 22, 1970.

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

The iconic photo, known as "Blue Marble," was taken by NASA astronauts Eugene "Gene" Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on Dec. 7 using a Hasselblad camera and a Zeiss lens, about 28,000 ...

But while "Blue Marble" didn't create an overnight revolution, it came to play an important role in the growing environmental movement. The first Earth Day had been celebrated on April 22, 1970.