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Snopes the blue marble. Marble is a rock made of calcium carbonate which has been exposed to a natural recrystallization process. Marble is being created by the transformation of other stones through the action of high temperatures and intense pressures. An internet hoax originating in 2010 purporting an unknown sexually transmitted disease affecting only women causing severe infection and blue discoloration to the vagina. Sparkling at the center of this beautiful hubble space telescope image is a wolf rayet star known as wr 31a located about 30 000 light years away.

It is made of 36 000 stones of marble from maryland and granite from maine and weighs 90 000 tons. The original blue marble is thought by many to be. Here is episode 2 of the blue marble. This was the first time the apollo trajectory.

A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. The disease has been confirmed as false. All details about their properties design price. Evans command module pilot.

As a result of this process new minerals textures and structures give rise to a large number of different types of marble as we will see in the examples below. Let me introduce you to the tricks used in thi. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.

Schmitt lunar module pilot traveling toward the moon. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface. The monument sees about 800 000 visitors a year. It was the first full photo of the earth taken on december 7 1972 by the american crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the mediterranean sea area to the antarctica south polar ice cap. It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history. 142 types of blue marble from 22 countries. View of the earth as seen by the apollo 17 crew astronaut eugene a.