La scoperta del paesaggio terrestre. Note sulla rivoluzione spaziale astronautica del paesaggio

The most important event in cosmonautical exploration was not the reaching of dis-tant lunar territory, but the fact that the Earth for the first time had the opportunity to see itself, to meet itself. Two photographs in particular have imposed themselves as a true visiotype of our planetary imagination, establishing the birth of a new land-scape consciousness of the cosmos: Earthrise (1968) and The Blue Marble (1972). This article analyses the landscaping operation from which the new astronautical worldview originated: that “altered image of the Earth” that represents the most important and lasting legacy of the ‘astronautical spatial revolution’, the last great global spatial revolution in the air age