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Radio 4,2 mins

Apollo 17's "Blue Marble" photograph

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Chris Riley examines the legacy of the Apollo missions, including one of the most famous photographs of The Earth, titled "Blue Marble". He talks to Robert Poole, author of Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth, about the most reproduced image in human history, "it said that Europe and The West are not the biggest thing in the Earth".

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