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Africa Target Name:   Earth Spacecraft:   Apollo 17 Produced by:   NASA Copyright:  Copyright Free Related Document Earth Introduction Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size earthafr.jpg JPEG 640 x 646 77K earthafr.jpg JPEG 1746 x 1763 257K The crew of Apollo 17 took this photograph of Earth in December 1972 while the spacecraft was traveling between the Earth and the Moon. The orange-red deserts of Africa and Saudi Arabia stand in stark contrast to the deep blue of the oceans and the white of both clouds and snow-covered Antarctica.

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