They often pictured it flat, with a firmament (like a tent) covering the Earth. However, in the past the ancients, although knowing it was a circle, and not a globe, depicted the Earth differently. This picture became known by the title that was given to it: “The Blue Marble.” More on the “images” and “pictures” of the alleged “blue marble” in chapter nineteen. Twenty six years later, on December 7th, the Apollo 17 mission took the following picture. On October 24, 1946, the V2 Rocket #13 became the first man-made object to take a photograph of the Earth from space. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth. And God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the Stars also. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth: and it was so. And God said let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years. and God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the Firmament: and it was so. And God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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