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The Blue Marble

On April 22, 1970, humanity came together around the world to celebrate and honor Earth Day for the first time. Not long after, in 1972, the crew of NASA's Apollo 17 mission took this classic photo of Earth, the "Blue Marble", on their way to the Moon for the Apollo program's final lunar landing.

 

Now, as NASA prepares the Artemis program to return to the Moon — to stay — we continue to look back at the beauty and wonder of our home planet, using what we learn in space to keep it safe.

 

CREDIT: NASA

 

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Uploaded on April 22, 2020