This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth 🌍 #BlueDot

Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth you're looking at planet earth

Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba this is planet earth
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba calling planet earth
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba looking at planet earth
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba this is planet earth

The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 18,000 miles from the planet's surface. 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.

It mainly shows the Earth from the Mediterranean Sea to Antarctica. This was the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap, despite the Southern Hemisphere being heavily covered in clouds. In addition to the Arabian Peninsula and Madagascar, almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible. The Asian mainland is on the horizon.

NASA has also applied the name to a 2012 series of images which cover the entire globe at relatively high resolution. These were created by looking through satellite pictures taken over time in order to find as many cloudless photographs as possible to use in the final images. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble

The Earth seen from Apollo 17 by NASA taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3RDy

See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(Duran_Duran_song)

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Taken on: December 7, 1972

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