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KEYWORDS: Earth; earth observation; remote sensing; webcam; Moon; selenology; selenography
Worlds by millions are revolving
Through that vast, unfathomed main;
Should our tiny orb make shipwreck,
Worlds by millions would remain...
John L. Stoddard
Ford Prefect (entry for 'Earth' in Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Fred Hoyle, 1948 (NB The Home icon in the upper and lower left corners of this and other pages on this site is a GIF image based on a photograph of the whole Earth taken from Apollo 17, outward bound, in December 1972.)
Loren W. Acton (STS 51/F, Challenger 8, July 1985)
Carl Sagan (on the image of Earth -- "a pale blue dot in a sunbeam" -- taken by Voyager 1 from beyond the orbit of Neptune on 14 February 1990)