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.
Video slate image reads "Apollo 17: Blue Marble Drift-in
Slow push-in to the 'Blue Marble' earth mosaic. Match-framed to 'Apollo 17: Earth Photo Drift-in' so that post production can dissolve between them".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.
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Animator
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, January 23, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
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BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]
ID: 508Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
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