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Loading contentCaption: 'The Blue Marble' — a fully illuminated Earth photographed by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the Moon in 1972.
One of the most reproduced images in history; a rare fully-sunlit view of Earth captured as Apollo 17 travelled toward the Moon, showing Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Antarctica.
NASA / William Anders
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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