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How one Earth photo became TV logos

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Television networks love a good rebrand, especially when the main asset is completely free. When the Apollo 17 crew snapped their famous 'Blue Marble' photograph of Earth in 1972, greedy TV stations immediately ripped the public domain image to use in their broadcast idents, effortlessly buying themselves an unearned aura of global authority.

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