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Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Drift-in
In conjunction with the 30th Anniversary Apollo 17 mission, NASA put together a special release highlighting one of the most popular photos taken during this mission. The photo (#AS17-148-22727) was taken on Dec. 7, 1972 from the Apollo 17 command module. It was the first full Earth photograph revealing the Antarctic continent. Over the years, many other satellites have taken imagery of Earth, including Terra/MODIS. This animation uses a global mosaic derived from Terra/MODIS. As a tribute to its predecessor, this Blue Marble data set has been aligned to the same angle and pitch that the famous Apollo 17 photograph was taken.

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.    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.
Duration: 13.0 seconds
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Animation Number:2683
Animator:Alex Kekesi (Lead)
Studio:SVS
Completed:2002-11-21
Instrument:Terra/MODIS
Data set:Blue Marble
Data Collected:2001/06-2001/09
Series:Apollo 17 30th Anniversary
Video:SVS2002-0029 *
Goddard TV Tape:G2002-089
Keywords:
SVS >> Photography
SVS >> Picture
SVS >> Wonderglobe
 
 
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