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Blue Marble

Taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on their way to the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble

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  • Kind of unrelated, but the fact that that picture was taken upside down reminds me that north didn’t have to be at the top of our maps. We could’ve made south the top and our maps would look upside-down but the map would work the same. Same with making east or west the top.