Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Blue Marble

The Blue Marble


"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 45,000 kilometers or about 28,000 miles. It is one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. Earth is said to have the appearance of a child's marble in the photo; that is the Earth has the same aspect at this distance as a child's marble at about arm's length.

This photo is of Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula as taken en route to the Moon by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt on December 7, 1972.


 * Nominate and support. - Dbalderzak 22:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
 * It's already featured. Dunno why it never got FeaturedPicture stuck on it, though. &#8212;Cryptic (talk) 22:57, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Removed - already featured. Raven4x4x 09:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

