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The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972 from a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from the planet's surface It was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, and is one of the most reproduced images in history. [...] To the astronauts, the slightly gibbous Earth had the appearance and size of a glass marble, hence the name. [...] The Apollo 17 image [...] became a symbol of the environmental movement, as a depiction of Earth's frailty, vulnerability, and isolation amid the vast expanse of space. [...] All Apollo flights were heavily scheduled down to the minute. At the time this photo was taken, none of the astronauts was scheduled to do so. Thus this photo was taken quickly in a stolen moment. The astronaut who took the picture was weightless, and the continents were hard to see, and he took the photo quickly. [...] The photographer used a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter Zeiss lens. NASA credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew - Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt - all of whom took photographs during the mission with the on-board Hasselblad, although evidence examined after the mission suggests that Schmitt was the photographer. [...] Apollo 17 was the last crewed lunar mission. No human since has been far enough from Earth to photograph a whole-Earth image.

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera. Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. The phrase "Pale Blue Dot" was coined by Sagan in his reflections on the photograph's significance, documented in his 1994 book of the same name.

Lapis the scheme will be anything with Bugberry Blue, Brass, and Melody. So if anything you can put "lapis bugberry" and that will get my items. Lapis the color will be with Lazuli and some Delicate Death items.

If you mean Lapis the color, then Lazuli is the actual scheme name you'll need to refer to for people that want that scheme. But if you want Lapis the scheme, those are its colors so it can help to differentiate the two.

**ITEM RECOLORING**: SDPlus #758 Celestial Nemesis
**POSE(S) RECOLORING**: Planets
**NEW ITEM NAME**: Planet Eaters
**NEW ITEM DESCRIPTION**: "My Herald, the great hunger is upon me. Where is the next world upon which I can feed?" — The Devourer of Worlds
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**RECOLOR EXPLANATION**:
Pose 1: Alexandrite
Pose 2: Lapis Lazuli
Pose 3: White

**COLOR REFERENCE ITEMS**:
Alexandrite = Nebula Sorceress's Hair pose ( https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10869636/ )
Lapis Lazuli = Mercurial Northern Light's Aurora Borealis background pose ( https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10872252/ )
White = The Lunar Cry's white pose ( https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10841484/ )

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**EXTRA NOTES**#: Request that the name for the Lapis Lazuli pose be "Pale Blue Marbles" & the name for the White pose be "Dead Moons". Other collab partners in the project are Cutesi, Ardbert, & Wings and Horns. Thank you!

Tagging Permission Post: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.100984945_10119/#10119
Cutesi: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.100984945_10122/#10122
Ardbert: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.100984945_10121/#10121
Wings and Horns: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.100984945_10120/#10120


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