Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Great Barrier Reef Fly-over
In conjunction with the 30th Anniversary Apollo 17 mission, NASA put together a special release highlighting one of the most popular photos taken during that mission. The photo (#AS17-148-22727) was taken on Dec. 7, 1972 from the Apollo 17 command module. Over the years, many other satellites have taken imagery of Earth, including Terra/MODIS. This animation uses a global mosaic derived from Terra/MODIS and flies us over Australia's Great Barrier Reef to celebrate how far Earth science imagery has come since the days of Apollo 17.
Fly-over animation of the Great Barrier Reef using the Blue Marble data mosaic.
Australias Great Barrier Reef
Video slate image reads "Apollo 17 30th Anniversary: Blue Marble Great Barrier Reef Fly-over
Beauty shot fly-over of Australia's Great Barrier Reef using the 'Blue Marble' earth mosaic. The purpose of this animation is to show how far earth science satellite imagery has come since the taking of the famed Apollo 17 photo".
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).
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