This Day in Awesome History: Blue Marble!!!

This Day in Awesome History is an especially awesome day in history!

December 7th, 1972, the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft were on their way to the moon when they took this incredibly famous photograph:

"The snapshot taken by astronauts on December 7, 1972 is one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. The image is one of the few to show a fully lit Earth, as the astronauts had the Sun behind them when they took the image. To the astronauts, Earth had the appearance of a child's glass marble (hence the name)."

Go humans!
36 years ago today. Epic win for us all.

Have an incredible day.

Love,

SuperForester Jackson

All the Air & Water We've Got

Check out this image:



This is a visual representation of all of the Earth's air and water.
The little blue gem in the picture on the left is every drop of water on this planet, and the gray pearl on the right is all the breathable oxygen.

See how little? See how precious?

There's been an uproar about whether the proportions are correct, and by what I can glean from the talkbacks, they are.

That's all we've got folks!

Let's treat it well.

Love

SF