===History===The photograph was taken about 5 hours and 6 minutes after launch of the Apollo 17 mission, and about 1 hour 54 minutes after the spacecraft left its parking orbit around the Earth, to begin its trajectory to the Moon.
»Modra frnikola« (izvirno angleško »The Blue Marble«) je znamenita fotografija Zemlje, ki jo je posnela posadka vesoljske odprave Apollo 17 7. decembra 1972 na razdalji približno 45.000 km.