Portraits of our planet
Jul 15, 2021
3 minutes
The photos of Earth against the blackness of space are perhaps the greatest legacy of the Apollo Program. As astronaut Bill Anders said on returning from the first voyage beyond Earth’s orbit: “We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”
Apollo images such as ‘Earthrise’ and ‘The Blue Marble’ are not just famous images of Earth, they are among the most widely reproduced photos of all time. The contrast
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