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SVS2002-0029
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: 2027-03-01
Producer: Sarah Dewitt
Trt: 00:19:15:01
Audio: No Audio
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Digital copy of the Apollo 17 full-Earth photograph. 2680 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Antarctica Zoom-out 01:00:35:00  -   01:01:40:14
Digital copy of the Apollo 17 full Earth photograph. 2681 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Saudi Arabia Zoom-out 01:01:54:00  -   01:02:59:08
Digital copy of the Apollo 17 full Earth photograph. 2682 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Earth photo Drift-in 01:03:13:00  -   01:04:04:27
Animation of the Blue Marble Earth starting from the same angle as the Apollo 17 Earth photo. This animation does a slight push-in to the Blue Marble data set and is match-framed to animation #2682 (the original Apollo photo) for a post-production transition. 2683 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Drift-in 01:04:19:00  -   01:05:10:27
Animation of a beauty shot fly-over that covers Africa, Asia, and Europe using the Blue Marble data mosaic. 2684 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble European Fly-over 01:05:25:00  -   01:06:30:07
The Andes Mountains. 2685 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Andes Flyover 01:06:44:00  -   01:07:49:08
The Himalayas. 2686 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Himalayan Fly-over 01:08:03:00  -   01:09:08:07
Italy 2687 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Italian Fly-over 01:09:22:00  -   01:10:27:15
Australias Great Barrier Reef 2688 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Great Barrier Reef Fly-over 01:10:41:00  -   01:11:46:09
View of Asia 2648 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: View of the Biosphere 01:12:00:00  -   01:13:20:18
View of Asia 2649 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: View of the Earth's Surface 01:13:40:00  -   01:15:00:00
View of Asia 2650 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Land Classification 01:15:20:00  -   01:16:39:01
View of Asia 2651 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Carbon Monoxide 01:16:55:00  -   01:18:14:20
View of Asia 2652 Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Water Vapor in the Atmosphere 01:18:30:00  -   01:19:50:01

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