Fragile: This way up - Frozen goods!

Apollo 17 'Blue Marble' Photograph

 

Apollo 17 1972 NASA Original Blue Marble Photograph

Or, some water 'heading your way' ...

'NASA’s archival designation for it is AS17-148-22727, and the original image was taken upside down with the South Pole at the top. In its myriad reproductions, it’s flipped up to match what we would normally expect to see.'

Text: https://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/12/09/behind-blue-marble/

Does the model still 'work' -

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 POLITICAL        :     SOCIOLOGY  

MECHANISTIC --------------------------------------  HUMANISTIC

            SCIENCES       :    INTERPERSONAL

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POLITICAL	SOCIOLOGY
SCIENCES	INTERPERSONAL

- this way ...?

Image source: https://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/t15428-apollo-17-1972

n.b. Earlier this year, in Wigtown, Oxford, Hay-on-Wye, or London I came across a new book which included this iconic photograph. If I can rediscover the text I will add the reference and page.

A planet is not just for Christmas.