Apollo 17 Marble

Earthrise was followed by blue marble a view of the earth taken from the apollo 17 spacecraft in 1972.

Apollo 17 marble.

And scientist astronaut harrison h. Evans command module pilot. 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. The apollo 17 lunar module undergoes testing prior to being enclosed in the adapter that will house it during the first four hours of flight to the moon.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. Its crew consisted of commander eugene cernan lunar module pilot harrison schmitt and command module pilot ronald evans and it carried a biological experiment containing five mice. The original caption is reprinted below. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

This was the first time the apollo trajectory. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972. Fifty years ago on april 22 1970 people around the world marked the first earth day. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.

View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. 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. A real time interactive journey through the apollo 17 mission.

That was the last of the apollo moon missions but nasa s space probes continued to take. Apollo 17 december 7 19 1972 was the final moon landing mission of nasa s apollo program and remains the most recent time humans have travelled beyond low earth orbit. This is the first. 300 hours of audio 22 hours of video 4 200 photos.

Nasa crew of apollo 17. This classic photograph of the earth was taken on december 7 1972. This is the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. The blue marble is a famous photograph 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 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles.

Ksc 72p 454 137k the apollo 17 spacecraft right crosses paths with the s ib booster intended for the first manned skylab mission. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon.