Kevin Govender

@govender.bsky.social

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Chair of IAU GA 2024 Organising Committee, www.astronomy2024.org; Director of OAD, www.astro4dev.org

This is the original version of a photograph taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on their way to the moon (no humans have gone as far from Earth since). A cropped and rotated version of this image, called the Blue Marble, became one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, with the African continent clearly visible.