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Topic: Apollo 17: 'The Blue Marble' photographer
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-27-2006 01:33 AM
   
From Eric Hartwell's InfoDabble (via HobbySpace): "The Blue Marble" is one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. NASA says, "The identity of the photographer is unverifiable." But is it really?The identity of the photographer is unverifiable? I decided to take that as a personal challenge. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3160
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-27-2006 01:00 PM
I'm fairly sure I heard Jack Schmitt say he took the photograph (at the National Air and Space Museum in March 2003). If anyone disagrees, I may have it on tape. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1647
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 12-27-2006 04:07 PM
Jack claimed credit for it at Johnson Space Center in April of this year. |
wdw
Member Posts: 58
From: Scotland
Registered: May 2007
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posted 02-27-2017 07:26 AM
I've recently been working on the initial pages of an Apollo 17 Flight Journal and have reached the part where I think the Blue Marble images were taken (about 5 hours, 6 minutes into the mission). I have a suspicion that Ron Evans is responsible for taking them. This is mostly based on the fact that at 005:08:38, he says to mission control that the counter for the magazine (148 or NN) is on frame 123. I think this means the camera is cocked to take frame 123 and this is the frame directly after the 4-frame Blue Marble sequence. This suggests to me that Ron had just taken them, looked at the counter and immediately reported its reading to Earth. I read on Wikipedia that the third shot in the sequence, AS17-148-22727, is considered to be *the* Blue Marble shot, but to my eye, and looking at the high quality scans that appeared on Flickr a while back, the first shot, 22725, is marginally sharper. I'd be interested in any input folk might have. |
One Big Monkey
Member Posts: 171
From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 02-28-2017 02:40 AM
Schmitt took regular photos of Earth for quite some distance out and gave NASA a running commentary about the Earth's weather. It's not entirely clear whether this was his idea or part of the mission profile (he does say it was discussed beforehand in his oral history), but he did take a lot of photos and describe them in great detail. |
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