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Apollo 17 Blue Marble original orientation (AS17-148-22727)

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Apollo 17 Blue Marble original orientation (AS17-148-22727) — archival photograph
NASA original caption: View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972, traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap. Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the en

The year

1972
Photographer
NASA
Date
1972
Licence
Public domain
Source
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_17_Blue_Marble_original_orientation_(AS17-148-22727).jpg
Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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