Viewers of a certain age (including my own) may remember the children's TV show Big Blue Marble—reminiscent of the photograph of our water world taken by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 (top).I ...

A new satellite photograph of Earth depicts our planet in all its aquatic splendor, revealing a truth somewhat obscured in the original Blue Marble image. That photograph is among the defining ...

One of the most famous photos ever taken is NASA’s Blue Marble - a beautiful picture of Earth from space taken on 7 December, 1972. The brown and green of Africa makes way to the white of Antarctic ...

The effect is a visual experience that looks like waves rolling on the ocean. It even captures the imagine of the sun glinting on the water. 3-D software was used to design the look of the ocean.