Taken with a Hasselblad 500EL camera and 80mm Zeiss lens at stop setting f/2.8 on 70mm Ektachrome film of type SO-368

The Blue Marble
Author	The photo was taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the Moon. Antarctica, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Madagascar, and part of Asia are visible. Deglr6328's comments on modifying the image: I cropped the image and adjusted only the brightness/contrast and gamma in photoshop to, what appears to my eye, be a better color match to what might actually be seen from space than the color in Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg, which I feel is too dark/red and just odd looking (like an old faded photo). I tried to match the color in the version I uploaded to other examples of this shot as provided by NASA on various pages of theirs.
Photographer	Harrison Schmitt  (1935–)    Description American geologist, politician, astronaut, scientist and university teacher Date of birth 3 July 1935  Location of birth Santa Rita Work location Washington, D.C.; New Mexico  Authority file : Q108886 VIAF: 31002920 ISNI: 0000000028663130 LCCN: n85805597 NAID: 10569053 US Congress: S000132 WorldCat Eugene Cernan  (1934–2017)     Alternative names Birth name: Eugene Andrew Cernan; Gene Cernan; Eugene A. Cernan Description American naval officer, astronaut, fighter pilot, autobiographer, businessperson and aerospace engineer Date of birth/death 14 March 1934  16 January 2017  Location of birth/death Chicago Houston Authority file : Q158486 VIAF: 69785710 ISNI: 000000012138411X LCCN: n98095652 NAID: 10574575 GND: 121475212 WorldCat Ronald Evans  (1933–1990)    Alternative names Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr.; Ronald Ellwin Evans Description American astronaut, military officer, engineer, aircraft pilot and aerospace engineer Date of birth/death 10 November 1933  7 April 1990  Location of birth/death St. Francis Scottsdale Authority file : Q313543 VIAF: 171815135 LCCN: no2011092927 WorldCat
Title	The Blue Marble  title QS:P1476,en:"The Blue Marble " label QS:Len,"The Blue Marble " label QS:Les,"La canica azul" label QS:Lis,"Bláa perlan" label QS:Lms,"Guli Biru" label QS:Lbg,"Синьото топче" label QS:Ltr,"Mavi Bilye" label QS:Lzh-hk,"藍色彈珠" label QS:Lsv,"Den blå pärlan" label QS:Luk,"Блакитна іграшкова куля" label QS:Lzh-hant,"藍色彈珠" label QS:Lzh-cn,"蓝色弹珠" label QS:Lko,"푸른 구슬" label QS:Leo,"Blua Globeto" label QS:Lmk,"Сина џамлија" label QS:Lbho,"दि ब्लू मार्बल" label QS:Lbn,"দ্য ব্লু মার্বেল" label QS:Lfr,"La Bille bleue" label QS:Lhr,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lmr,"द ब्लू मार्बल" label QS:Lvi,"Viên bi xanh" label QS:Llv,"Zilā marmora bumbiņa" label QS:Lsr,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lzh-sg,"蓝色弹珠" label QS:Lsu,"Si Kaléci Biru" label QS:Lckb,"کەلا شینەکە" label QS:Lar,"البلية الزرقاء" label QS:Lyue,"藍色波子" label QS:Lhu,"Kék üveggolyó" label QS:Leu,"Puxtarri urdina" label QS:Lca,"La bala blava" label QS:Lde,"Blue Marble" label QS:Lga,"An Mirlín Gorm" label QS:Lfa,"تیله آبی" label QS:Lzh,"藍色彈珠" label QS:Lja,"ザ・ブルー・マーブル" label QS:Lhe,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lrmy,"I bodli marmura" label QS:Lfi,"Sininen marmorikuula" label QS:Lta,"தி புளூ மார்பிள்" label QS:Lit,"Blue Marble" label QS:Laz,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lbbc,"Garaga na biru" label QS:Lcs,"Modrá skleněnka" label QS:Lanp,"द ब्लू मार्बल" label QS:Lsr-ec,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lbe-tarask,"Блю марбл" label QS:Lro,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lpt,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lvo,"Maboin Blövik" label QS:Lhi,"द ब्लू मार्बल" label QS:Lnl,"Blue marble" label QS:Llt,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lsl,"Modra frnikola" label QS:Ltl,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lbe,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lhy,"Կապույտ մարբլ" label QS:Lid,"Kelereng Biru" label QS:Lpl,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lth,"เดอะบลูมาร์เบิล" label QS:Lsh,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lsco,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lzh-tw,"藍色彈珠" label QS:Lru,"The Blue Marble" label QS:Lsc,"Sa Birìllia Asula" label QS:Lgl,"A canica azul" label QS:Let,"Sinine marmorkuul" label QS:Lzh-hans,"蓝色弹珠" label QS:Lsr-el,"The Blue Marble"
Part of	Apollo 17
Object type	photograph
Genre	astrophotography
Description	A version of The Blue Marble.
Date	This image was originally uploaded to the English Wikipedia by Deglr6328 on 04:05, 8 Mar 2005.
Source	The image is from [1] (NASA mission AS17, roll 148, frame 22727), specifically the 4400x4600 version available there.
Other versions	image  part of: Apollo 17  based on: AS17-148-22727

Object location	26° 19′ 49″ S, 37° 25′ 13″ E	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	-26.330278; 37.420278

Other versions

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Other versions:

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  Raw photograph, AS17-148-22727, original orientation
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  Raw photograph, AS17-148-22727, north up
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  Rescanned and color-calibrated with mission color chart.
  3,000×3,000 (5.6 MB)
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  With white background
  2,790×2,776 (4.4 MB)
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  With transparent background
  2,790×2,776 (14.64 MB)
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  Larger photoshopped JPEG version; possibly more useful for articles
  4,463×4,163 (5.9 MB)
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  Color corrected
  2,320×2,407 (2.33 MB)
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  Image redone with colors
  2,400x2,400 (3.33 MB)
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  Reversed (allegedly original) orientation
  3,000×3,002 (9.33 MB)
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  '"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth'
  2,400x2,400 (2.98 MB)

Derivative works:

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  earth
  600x600 (1.72 MB)
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  GPS atmospheric effects for the Earth
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  Universal gravitational mass for the Earth
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  Order of magnitude for the Sun, Jupiter, Earth, and Moon
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  Earth size comparison for the Moon
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  Earth size comparison for the planet Venus
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  Earth and Moon to scale with annotations
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  Earth-Moon system to scale
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  Origin of life stages

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