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Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with these inspirational, happy, and funny Earth Day quotes and short messages about saving the environment and planet.
Begun in 2009 and taken by satellite and aircraft technology, the agency's Images of Change project provides side-by-side photos of the same place over time to document the environment changes ...
The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun , the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system , as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth has been collecting and categorizing photos taken by astronauts. They see Earth from an altitude of about 250 miles as the station travels at a speed ...
First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. [32] [33] [34] [7] [19] December 11, 1966 ATS-1: First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit. [35] First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit. [35] [image needed] January 1967
The Chinese government has a released a series of stunning high definition images taken from space by a state-of-the-art satellite. China's Gaofen-1 satellite was launched in April 2013.