Photo by NASA The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of 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 kilometres. It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.

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Zack Metcalfe