Overview

Overview

In case you weren’t aware and you can’t be bothered to look it up on Wikipedia, The Blue Marble is a photo of earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on December 7, 1972 from around 45,000 kilometres way. You’ll recognize the photo if you see it, it’s the one where the earth looks like a blue marble. In this short 17 minute doc astronauts discuss the Overview Effect, which is the effect seeing earth from space has upon their attitude to humans and the planet once they’ve witnessed such a majestic sight.

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