These colors have been put together by The Fibre Studio for Paper Daisy Creations new Mystery Knit-A-Long called Cosmic Connections.
This collection was influenced by satellite and space crews view of Earth from space. Earth, dubbed the blue marble, after an iconic photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972. Although it was not the FIRST color image of Earth taken from space, The cropped image became one of the most reproduced images in history. The image was used as a symbol of the environmental movement, surging during the early 1970s.
The image that inspired us was Blue Marble 2000, Inspired by the original Apollo 17 image, this version is a digital portrait that synthesizes data from multiple satellites and USGS topography modeling. The image of the moon was added digitally.
Science and art. For the win!
Source: NASA/GSFC/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY