📅 On This Day: December 7

December 7, 1972: The 'Blue Marble' photo of Earth. On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts on their way to the Moon took a photo showing the whole round Earth at once. Blue oceans, white clouds, Africa and Antarctica are all clearly visible, so it was nicknamed the 'Blue Marble'.

🔬 The 'Blue Marble' photo of Earth (1972)

The Earth on this very globe is made from NASA images with the same name!

Where: Kennedy Space Center (launch site), USA

Read about Kennedy Space Center → 📍 See it on the 3D globe

✨ More events on this day

1732 🎨 The Royal Opera House opened at Covent Garden in London. Today it is the home of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera.
1905 🔬 Astronomer Gerard Kuiper was born in the Netherlands. He found new moons around Uranus and Neptune, and the icy Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune is named after him.
1995 🚀 NASA's Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter after a six-year journey. It dropped a probe into Jupiter's clouds and spent years studying the planet and its moons.

🧠 Question of the day

What is the nickname of Apollo 17's photo of Earth?

The Blue Marble
The Golden Apple
The Red Star

Show the answer

Answer: The Blue Marble

🎂 Landmarks that opened on December 7

Notre-Dame de Parisreopened 2024

Questions

What happened on December 7?

December 7, 1972: The 'Blue Marble' photo of Earth. It happened in Kennedy Space Center (launch site), USA.

Which landmarks opened on December 7?

Notre-Dame de Paris (reopened 2024).

In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble