The Blue Marble, Wikicommons Free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-whole-earth-nasas-blue-marble-photograph-fifty-years-on-tickets-465737231597 On the fiftieth anniversary of NASA's famed “Blue Marble” photograph (1972), the University of Portsmouth will host a series of public talks,  screenings, workshops and artworks from December 7th to 9th that reassess its historical impact and enduring legacy. As a talismanic icon in US (and global) visual culture, the Blue Marble not only offered a spectacular vision of the Earth seen from space, but quickly intervened in a range of political, cultural and scientific debates. It has subsequently served as a launch pad from which discussions emerge over issues as varied as the environment, the ethics of space travel, geopolitics, global interconnectedness, philosophy and, indeed, the scientific understanding of the earth itself. From Greenpeace to Gaia to Google Maps, from the tranquillity of outer space to social unrest on Earth, it is an image inextricably associated with a transformative period of US and global history, […]