The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken by the crew of Apollo 17 on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from the planet's surface.
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Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
The thin blue line is a colloquial term for police forces. The Thin Blue Line or Thin Blue Line may also refer to:
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An arm is an upper limb of the body.
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Spin-off, Spin Off, Spin-Off, or Spinoff may refer to:
Aqua is the Latin word for water. As such, it is often used in many words which relate to water, such as aquatic life. In English, it may also refer to:
A turtle is a reptile, most of whose body is shielded by a special bony or cartilaginous shell.
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The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon. Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
Draco is the Greco-Latin word for serpent, or dragon.
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NASA WorldWind is an open-source virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information. Organizations around the world use WorldWind to monitor weather patterns, visualize cities and terrain, track vehicle movement, analyze geospatial data and educate humanity about the Earth." It was first developed by NASA in 2003 for use on personal computers and then further developed in concert with the open source community since 2004. As of 2017, a web-based version of WorldWind is available online. An Android version is also available.
Ares is the Greek god of war and violence, equivalent of the Roman god Mars.
A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position. Compared to a conventional globe, virtual globes have the additional capability of representing many different views of the surface of Earth. These views may be of geographical features, man-made features such as roads and buildings, or abstract representations of demographic quantities such as population.
Luna commonly refers to:
A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.
Blue Marble Geographics is a developer and provider of geographic information system software products focused on data translation. They provide software products and services for working with GIS data in different formats.
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