Science Wednesday: Earthrise – The Picture That Inspired the Environmental Movement


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I’ve never been terribly interested in space exploration. Though I do remember pictures Earth–our “big blue marble”–from my earliest childhood, I’ve been tempted to think on occasion, “What a waste of money. We have so many problems on Earth to solve.” What I didn’t realize was how those images have inspired me to think of the world as a global community.

I guess I shouldn’

photo of a half-earth rising in a black sky over the lunar horizon

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