The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires
- Written by Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
NASADecember 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we visualised our planet forever.
Taken with a Hasselblad film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round...
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