Harrison Schmitt

The nearly full “Blue Marble” at a distance of 45,000 km

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, 006:09:55 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS17-148-22733” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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A superb photograph taken with the 80mm lens about an hour later than the “Blue Marble”.

006:09:55 Schmitt: Bob, if I’m not waking you up, an observer from another planet certainly -
probably could decide that we have such things as clouds and at least large thunderstorms because right at the terminator you get a brightening of the sunlit side and a long, long shadow out to the - out to the east that is reminiscent of what we saw in the early days looking at the Moon at the terminator.
006:10:37 Overmyer (Mission Control): Roger.
006:10:40 Schmitt: However, in the next pass around, I’ll bet you wouldn’t see them.
006:11:21 Schmitt: I’ve never been a big - Well, I didn’t grow up with the idea of drifting continents and sea-floor spreadings, but I tell you, when you look at the way the pieces of the - of the northeastern portion of the African continent seem to fit together, separated by a narrow gulf, you could almost make a believer of anybody.
006:11:22 Overmyer: Roger. It’s beginning to look like the globe that you might buy down at the store, huh?
006:11:57 Schmitt: Oh, I don’t think so, Bob. [Laughter.]
006:11:59 Overmyer: Okay.
006:12:01 Schmitt: I don’t think we’d better put this one up for sale. Somewhere there might be somebody who would like to buy it.