image: The Earth seen from Apollo 17. jpg | Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon ( now known as " The Blue Marble photo ").

The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

Schmitt claims to have taken the photograph of the Earth known as The Blue Marble, one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence.

In the 1970s, syndicated children's television program Big Blue Marble often invited viewers to write to them for their own pen pal.

" The Blue Marble " photograph of Earth, taken from Apollo 17

The historic The Blue Marble | Blue Marble photograph

* Blue Marble Mapper Draws Great Circle routes between airports using the NASA Blue Marble as the base map.

The building's exterior uses Pennsylvania Blue Marble, which, due to the manner in which it was cut, has begun to deteriorate from the exposure to the elements of weak parts of the stone.

Blue Marble composite images generated by NASA in 2001 ( left ) and 2002 ( right ).

The area is geologically founded on Forest Marble, Blue Lias and Oolitic limestone.

Pictures such as Apollo 8's Earthrise, which showed a crescent Earth peeking over the lunar surface, and Apollo 17s The Blue Marble, which for the first-time-ever showed a full circular earth, became iconic to the environmental movement.

The Georgia Marble rail lines at Tate and Marble Hill, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad at Blue Ridge, Georgia are also operated by GNRR.

1: Marble Hall ; 2: Great Staircase ; 3: Bedchamber, now Blue Room ; 4: Sweatmeat closet ; 5: Back stairs & east entrance ; 6: Chapel Drawing Room ; 7: Chapel ( double height ); 8: Tyrconnel Room ; 9: Saloon ; 10: Red Drawing Room ; 11: Little Parlour ( now Tapestry Room ); 12: School Room ; 13: Closet ; 14: Back stairs & west entrance ; 15: Service Room ( now Breakfast Room ); 16: Upper storey of kitchen, ( now Hondecoeter Room ); Please note: This is an unscaled plan for illustrative purposes only.

The Flag of the Earth | Earth Day flag by John McConnell contains The Blue Marble on a Flag terminology # Description of standard flag parts and terms | field of blue

Paint was a 2-pack Dulux Acran enamel and came in at least four known colours: " Aquamarine Blue Metallic " and a very light green ( almost white ) referred to as " Marble White ".

Callinectes sapidus | Blue crab was used on the eastern and southern coast of what is now the U. S. mainland.

On 25 August 1946 the Blue Angels switched to the Grumman F8F Bearcat | F8F-1 Bearcat and in 1947 introduced the famous " diamond " formation at the World Air Carnival in Birmingham, Alabama | Birmingham, Alabama.

All six Blue Angel Douglas A-4 Skyhawk | A-4F Skyhawk s executing a " fleur de lis " maneuver.

HeLa cells stained for the cell nucleus DNA with the Blue Hoechst stain | Hoechst dye.

Great Blue Heron | Great blue heron with a snake

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Two Common Blue Butterfly | butterflies lap at a small lump of feces lying on a rock.

Image: Cowboys blue uniform 1960. jpg | Blue home uniforms

Image: Cowboys blue uniform 1964. jpg | Blue away uniforms

Image: Rietveld chair 1. JPG | Red and Blue Chair ( 1917 )

Gachchtola. jpg | Front of Blue Earth Workshop

ZF Electronics | Cherry Blue mechanical switch

Image: Thomas Cubitt plaque 13 Lewes Crescent. jpg | Blue plaque commemorating Thomas Cubitt's residence at 13 Lewes Crescent

Brush Creek ( Blue River ) | Brush Creek on the Country Club Plaza at night

File: Labyrinth-at-bla-jungfrun. JPG | Stone labyrinth on Blå Jungfrun ( Blue Virgin ) island, Sweden

File: The Blue Mosque at sunset. jpg | The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

File: Barack Obama speaks to Stephen Hawking. jpg | President Barack Obama talks with Stephen Hawking in the Blue Room of the White House before a ceremony presenting him and 15 others the Presidential Medal of Freedom, August 12, 2009.

Blue Rider Back Bicycle Playing Cards by United States Playing Card Company | USPCC

The Blue Hussars on horseback were disbanded in the late 1940s and replaced by Motorcycle | motorbike outriders.

The 2nd Cavalry Squadron of the Blue Hussars escort the President, who travelled in the late Alexandra of Denmark | Queen Alexandra's landau.

File: Modry mauritius. jpg | David Feldman sold this Blue Mauritius stamp for SFr1, 610, 000 ( approx.

He took the cover photograph for The Swinging Blue Jeans ' debut album, Blue Jeans A Swinging ( 1964 ).

The Blue Marble is a famous photograph of the Earth, taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft, at a distance of about.

Two independent rings ( arbitrarily denoted as " Blue " and " Yellow " rings, see also the photograph ) circulate heavy ions and / or protons in opposite directions and allow a virtually free choice of colliding positively charged particles ( the eRHIC upgrade will allow collisions between positively and negatively charged particles ).

When the Earth Alliance under the direction of Blue Cosmos attacks Orb, Cagalli's father gives her a photograph of her and Kira when they were babies revealing that they are twins.

Gore hoped not only to advance science with these images, but also to raise awareness of the Earth itself, updating the influential The Blue Marble photograph taken by Apollo 17.

A 2007 photograph of the interior of University District, Seattle | Seattle's Blue Moon Tavern, where a Rosellini re-election Political campaign | campaign sign is still hanging. Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge — Evergreen Point | Evergreen Point Bridge under construction in 1962.

Sylvania " Blue Dot ( tm ) for sure shot " flashbulbs would be used to take a photograph of the contestants in awkward outfits or messy stunts.

The famous " Blue Marble " photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 was originally oriented with the south pole at the top, with the island of Madagascar visible just left of center, and the continent of Africa at its right.

* The DVD release includes the full performance as screened on BBC2, plus bonus features of the Blue Peter special, The Little Prince music video and a photograph gallery.

The historic The Blue Marble | Blue Marble photograph.

The Great Blue Hole is near the center of the photograph.