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The earth is rounded

The Earth has been round since the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC. No one disputed its balling. Modern geographical research came to confirm a familiar fact, until the Earth's sphericity became an axiom.
And mankind is wrapped around the earth, from west to east, from south to north. The era of flight came, and man made the plane an animal with which he bound the earth firmly, and with it he went around it, circle after circle, and he recognized the earth as being round, just as he knew his house to be square.

However, man has never seen the Earth.
Until the era of rockets and the space age came, and he saw it. It was necessary to see it from far away from it, and the spaceships with their men came out and saw what had never been seen before by a living person.
They photographed it and it was really a ball.
And behold, it is like the moon, half shining and half darkening. It is the first image in human history of the Earth as a ball.
It chronicles both the land and man.
Photographed by an American spacecraft.
It revolves around the moon, making many laps around it
Sequentially, it is 290,000 miles from Earth.

This picture was taken through space by the scientific station run by the Americans in Spain. This was on Tuesday, August 25, 1966.

On this day, space scientists in California, in the United States, ordered the spacecraft to take a picture of the Earth, and it obeyed. It immediately rotated until the lens it was carrying was facing the Earth. As the spacecraft almost disappeared behind the moon’s eastern edge as it traveled around it, its lens took the first picture. The earth was taken by any creature, whatever it was.

You see the earth in the picture, like a crescent moon, only the illuminated part of it has been built. At the top is its North Pole, with some deviation to the left, and below it is North America. As for the moon, it is the one to the right of the picture. It is huge relative to the Earth because it is close to the lens, and the curved line that borders it is its horizon, the horizon of the moon.

The name of the spacecraft remains “the lunar orbiter,” meaning the one that orbits around the moon. That's what they called it. In English, it is Lunar orbiter.