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Title: Apollo 17 30th Anniversary

Abstract: The Apollo 17 spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center at midnight on December 7th, 1972. Just hours after lift-off, the command module aligned with the Earth and Sun, allowing the crew to photograph Earth in full light. For the first time in an Apollo mission, the Antarctic continent was visible allowing for a photo to be taken by the orbiting astronauts. The photo was taken at about 28,000 statute miles away from Earth. Virtually every picture showing the full Earth is derived from this one photograph. Television, newspapers, websites, and marketing material have all used this photograph over the years. To this day it remains the number one requested photo in the NASA photo archives. As a tribute to this highly successful image, NASA has released this series of animations that spotlight the original full Earth shot alongside various other earth observing satellite imagery, including Terra/MODIS, Terra/MOPITT, SeaWiFS, and GOES.

Metadata date: 2003-01-27

Producer: Sarah Dewitt

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