World Reality

 apparently only 3 men (on apollo 17) ever saw a full earth

"It was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and the only one ever snapped by a human being. You can't see the Earth as a globe unless you get at least twenty thousand miles away from it, and only 24 humans ever went that far into outer space. They were the three-man crews of the nine Apollo missions that traveled to the moon between 1968 and 1972, six of which landed there successfully (three men went twice). But only the last three saw a full Earth."

The history of the blue marble. Describing stitched together data

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_history.php

Fake animations

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57760

Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA’sModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. Flying over 700 km above the Earth onboard the Terra satellite