File talk:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg

Why are there no other pictures?

Of all the trips to the moon and opportunities to take pictures of the Earth, why is this picture the only one the public ever sees? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ywaz (talk • contribs)

I agree, this looks pretty dull actually too. And to be featured on so many wikis... something looks a bit off here. --Anime Addict AA (talk) 00:30, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Well one obvious reason is that you have to be pretty far back from the Earth the see it all at once. None of the space stations out there now get nearly that far. You could patch together a bunch of the pictures taken from the orbiter, but then all you've got is a low-res version of Google Earth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.254.117.186 (talk) 13:47, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Half of the planet is always in shadow. To capture a completely illuminated hemisphere, which makes a complete circle instead of a crescent in a photo, requires that the sun, camera (i.e. the spacecraft), and earth be collinear. See the Blue Marble article. Yothgoboufnir (talk) 22:12, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

you forget the Earthrise image that also is pretty common. 76.66.192.206 (talk) 04:59, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

EP

{{editprotected}} This needs a {{C-uploaded}} and the original license tag.  fetchcomms☛ 02:06, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:13, 22 April 2010 (UTC)