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    The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,400 kilometers (18,300 miles) from the planet's surface...
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  • The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from...
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  • Big Blue Marble is a half-hour children's television program that was aired from 1974 to 1983 in syndication including on PBS television stations.[citation...
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  • data in different formats. Blue Marble is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium. Blue Marble's first software product, the Geographic Calculator, was...
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  • single city, the Blue Marble Game features cities from across the world; its title is a reference to The Blue Marble photograph taken by the crew of Apollo...
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    selfie The Blue Marble The Day the Earth Smiled Timeline of first images of Earth from space "A Pale Blue Dot". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original...
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  • visualization of the Western Hemisphere of planet Earth. Well known as the Blue Marble, this image that would become the default wallpaper on the first iPhone...
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  • The So Blue Marble is a 1940 mystery thriller novel by the American writer Dorothy B. Hughes. It was her first published novel. The manuscript was trimmed...
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    grandis) is known as a blue marble tree. In India, the cleaned pits of the fruit of this tree are known as rudraksha in the Hindi language (from Sanskrit:...
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  • album, The Blue Marble, but this time, he contributed more as a musician, particularly as a vocalist. As he had done with the Byrds album The Notorious...
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  • Blue Marble Biomaterials (formerly Blue Marble Energy), founded in 2007, is a US-based company which utilizes hybridized bacteria to produce specialty...
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    geology, the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone, but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. Marble is commonly...
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    photos taken by the astronauts. The most well known include Earthrise, taken by William Anders on Apollo 8, and The Blue Marble, taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts...
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    Carrara marble, Luna marble to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried...
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    the planet as a marble of cloud-swirled blue ocean broken by green-brown continents. NASA archivist Mike Gentry has speculated that The Blue Marble is...
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    A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm (1⁄2 in)...
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    hemisphere is generally poorer than the northern hemisphere." Map projection North–South divide "The 'Blue Marble' Shot Through History". July 24, 2015...
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  • 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2022. "The Story of the Blue Marble". CleanTechnica. January 1, 2022. Archived from the original on May 21, 2022. Retrieved...
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    Earthrise (category 1968 in the environment)
    accounts for the half-illuminated globe, the ashen glow, seen in the photograph. The Blue Marble First images of Earth from space Earth phase Pale Blue Dot List...
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    Princeton University Press. p. 4. Petsko, Gregory A. (28 April 2011). "The blue marble". Genome Biology. 12 (4): 112. doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-112. PMC 3218853...
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    Overview effect (category Concepts in the philosophy of mind)
    supremacy that contributed to the rise of borderless-world concepts such as the Gaia hypothesis, spaceship Earth, and the Blue Marble. Bimm expressed concern...
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    Harrison Schmitt (category People who have walked on the Moon)
    have taken the photograph of the Earth known as The Blue Marble, one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. Perhaps the hardest...
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  • directed by Harold Becker The Blue Marble#Black Marble 2012, an image of Earth black-colored marble, a rare coloration of the stone This disambiguation...
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  • September. Also, the Blue Marble 12 GB RAM / 256 GB storage variant of the phone was released on 6 August 2020 in India. Although the OnePlus Nord does...
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    Apollo 17 (category 1972 in the United States)
    One of these photographs is now known as The Blue Marble. The crew found that one of the latches holding the CSM and LM together was unlatched. While Schmitt...
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  • Apollo 8 photograph The Blue Marble, 1972 Apollo 17 photograph Wanderers (2014 film) Sagan, Carl (1994). Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space...
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  • mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. After an explosion occurred on board the spacecraft en route to the Moon at...
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    photograph the far side of the Moon. The Blue Marble photograph was taken from space in 1972, and has become very popular in the media and among the public...
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    World map (redirect from Maps of the world)
    rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions...
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    datamining to remedy the issue, providing what was described as a successor to the Blue Marble image of Earth, with a single large image of the entire planet...
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