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Desktop Wallpaper: The Blue Marble known as Earth

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    The Blue Marble from Apollo 17

    \n\tThe Blue Marble from Apollo 17 taken in 1972. I have used this image as my Desktop Wallpaper many times.

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    \n\tCourtesy NASA Johnson Space Center – Credit: NASA

  • Blue Marble 2000

    \n\tBlue Marble 2000.

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    \n\tCredit: R. Stockli, A. Nelson, F. Hasler, NASA

  • Atlantic Ocean

    \n\tAtlantic Ocean – 2007

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    \n\tNASA

  • Land surface

    \n\tLand surface.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto St\u00f6ckli.

  • Earth rising

    \n\tEarth rising over the Moon horizon – taken from Apollo 17.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

  • Untethered

    \n\tUntethered space walk of astronaut Bruce McCandless II – 1984. I have also used this photograph as Desktop wallpaper in the past.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

  • Earth viewed from Mars

    \n\tEarth viewed from Mars – feeling small yet?

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

  • Sunrise

    \n\tSunrise.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

  • Coronal mass ejection

    \n\tAn artist’s depection of a coronal mass ejection from the Sun and its impact on the Earth.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

  • Space Shuttle Atlantis

    \n\tSpace Shuttle Atlantis over the Earth.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

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    Spacewalk

    \n\tChrister Fuglesang Participates in a Spacewalk in 2006.

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    \n\tCredit: NASA

    Image: NASA
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