View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.
The pale blue marble flat earth.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
Earthrise blue marble and pale blue dot the apollo missions which concluded in 1972 coincided with the birth of the modern environmental movement the founding of friends of the earth in.
In the photograph earth s apparent size is less than a pixel.
Voyager 1 was speeding out of the solar system beyond neptune and about 3 7 billion miles 6 billion kilometers from the sun when mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time.
14 1990 by nasa s voyager 1 spacecraft.
The planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space among.
Evans command module pilot.
Music by general fuzz join u.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
D marble flew from north carolina to seattle with the level positioned on his plane seat arm rest for 23 minutes.
A vision of the human future in space in which he wrote.
Carl sagan planetary society co founder unveils the pale blue dot image at a press conference on the voyager missions in 1990.
Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon.
And scientist astronaut harrison h.
Flatline globe.
Carl sagan the pale blue dot.
This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap.
Pale blue dot is a photograph of planet earth taken on february 14 1990 by the voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers 3 7 billion miles 40 5 au as part of that day s family portrait series of images of the solar system.
Look again at that dot.
Blue marble 2 another photoshopped image of earth from our friends at nasa comes complete with matching clouds.
And to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot the only home we ve ever known.
For more replay from the beginning blue marble earth.
Flat earth nasa s blue marble ii image of earth is fake.
The image inspired the title of scientist carl sagan s 1994 book pale blue dot.
The pale blue dot is an iconic photograph of earth taken on feb.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
