AD 1972 · 20th century · Global

The Blue Marble

Earth seen whole, from outside - the photographic map.

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Catalogue record

Repository NASA
Custody Held by the repository named above
Record stands for A work or series, not one witness

Open questions

Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.

edition
The record identifies no frame number and no version. The photograph circulates in several orientations and crops, and the one this project reproduces is not pinned to any of them. The NASA image catalogue entry for the Apollo 17 frame, which would fix the identifier, the original orientation and the reuse terms together.

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