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Visions of the Earth
Let’s start with something we’re all vaguely familiar with. Earth from the surface of the moon. “Earthrise is the name given to a photograph of Earth taken by astronaut Willaim Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission. In Life’s 100 Photographs that Changed the World, wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” It was taken on 24th December 1968
How about this then? Little bit further away this time - Taken from the surface of Mars. That white dot in the top right is our moon.
Looks like a bright star yes? No. This is the Earth and her close companion the moon taken from The Messenger probe 77 million KM away, which is orbiting Mercury.
And finally - A picture of earth from the furthest point we have managed to get so far.
6,086,176,360 KM to be precise……At Carl Sagan’s suggestion NASA turned their probe “Voyager” around in 1990 once it had completed it’s primary mission and they took this.
Earth is the tiny blue spec just below halfway in the brown streak on the right hand side.
Here’s what Carl Sagan himself made of it
