The Bigger Picture

The Story Behind Earth’s Most Famous Photo (1x2)

Air date: Aug 22, 2022

How did the “Blue Marble,” as it is now known, come to be? Host Vincent Brown learns just how extraordinary a technical feat it was for Apollo 17 astronauts to snap the photograph in 1972, and how early environmentalists hoped that an image of the whole Earth might spark a desire to protect our planet.