First Photograph Of The Entire Globe

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 way we visualized our planet forever.
Author: Chari Larsson (Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University)
Republished from an article by The Conversation with permission from Chari Larsson.
Original title: The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires

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Author: Chari Larsson (Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University)
Republished from an article by The Conversation with permission from Chari Larsson.
Original title: The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires

[jcpmac]

From the human perspective it's fitting that Africa, and in particular the Rift Valley's Afar region, takes centre stage in the photograph. This was the human species' birthplace.

[husklordMusic]

The people who say that the Earth is flat confuse me, mainly because everyone was literally taught that the Earth is round in school... I'm beginning to think the people who believe the Earth is flat never paid attention or never went to school. And also it has been scientifically proven over and over and over again that the Earth is not flat, besides if the Earth were flat cats would've pushed everything off right now, or the Earth would look like a super flat Minecraft world.

[OldMusicFan]

Thanks America for sharing this picture with the rest of the world!

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[davidmichael]

It was NOT the first full-disk photograph taken from space. Read about the ATS-3 satellite in November of 1967.

[kindnessfirst]

Actually this (and most versions of the Blue Marble pic) is upside down. The original photo showed the Southern Hemisphere on the top. This confused people so reproductions were published upside down to meet people's expectations.