The Blue Marble (Wikipedia)The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,400 kilometers (18,300 miles) from the planet’s surface.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.Galileo Galilei, Salviati, p. 88
The Blue Marble (Wikipedia)The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,400 kilometers (18,300 miles) from the planet’s surface.
