{"id":5791,"date":"2017-03-16T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/aviewfromthebridge\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:00:02","slug":"snapping-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/aviewfromthebridge\/2017\/03\/16\/snapping-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapping Earth for more than seven decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ‘Blue Marble’ image of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. {credit}NASA{\/credit}<\/p><\/div>\n

For centuries, the only way to \u2018see\u2019 Earth whole was through globes and maps; its grandeur was merely glimpsed in mountain vistas or across a stretch of ocean. That changed in the 1940s, when the first images of the planet were snapped from rockets probing the border of space, 100 kilometres up. The imaginable became the visible.<\/p>\n

Since then, satellites and spacecraft have beamed down shots from ever greater distances and in growing detail. Now Nature Video has captured the most iconic of these in the film Portraits of a\u00a0Planet: Earth from <\/em>Space<\/em>.<\/p>\n