Desktop Wallpaper: The Blue Marble known as Earth

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Desktop Wallpaper: The Blue Marble known as Earth

By Mark W. Kaelin February 2, 2011, 12:37 AM PST

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The Blue Marble from Apollo 17

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

ntCourtesy NASA Johnson Space Center – Credit: NASA

Desktop Wallpaper: The Blue Marble known as Earth

Blue Marble 2000

ntBlue Marble 2000.

ntCredit: R. Stockli, A. Nelson, F. Hasler, NASA

Atlantic Ocean

ntAtlantic Ocean – 2007

ntNASA

Land surface

ntLand surface.

ntCredit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stu00f6ckli.

Earth rising

ntEarth rising over the Moon horizon – taken from Apollo 17.

ntCredit: NASA

Untethered

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

ntCredit: NASA

Earth viewed from Mars

ntEarth viewed from Mars – feeling small yet?

ntCredit: NASA

Sunrise

ntSunrise.

ntCredit: NASA

Coronal mass ejection

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

ntCredit: NASA

Space Shuttle Atlantis

ntSpace Shuttle Atlantis over the Earth.

ntCredit: NASA

Spacewalk

Image: NASA

Spacewalk

ntChrister Fuglesang Participates in a Spacewalk in 2006.

ntCredit: NASA

Image: NASA

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