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Posted on 13 October 2011

Blue marble pictures

Wired has a gallery of ten iconic images of our planet from space, three of which are displayed below – enjoy!

Earth from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft 2009 swing-by

Sun-facing view of tiny Earth from behind Saturn, captured by Cassini spacecraft

First-ever view of the Earth (1966) from around the moon captured by USA's Lunar Orbiter spacecraft

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Ralph Straumann

Ralph is a world-citizen, a geoinformation specialist by profession, and interested in many topics. Here, he'll confine himself mostly to things geo-visual. View all posts by Ralph Straumann

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