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Earth in true color This spectacular "blue marble" image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless ...
Iconic view of Earth from Apollo 17 One of the most famous images of the twentieth century, this view of the fully lit globe of Earth was taken from Apollo 17 shortly after its launch on December 7, 1972. The full view was enabled by the fortuitous alignment of Earth, spacecraft, and the Sun. NASA
Lunar Orbiter sent back the first photo of Earth over the Moon, but it was the Apollo program that produced the first widely publicized views of Earth as a colorful marble floating in black space, images that revolutionized public perception of our fragile planet. At the same time, Soviet Zond spacecraft were capturing similarly dramatic images.
The Veneras, which mean “Venus” in Russian, scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were both alien and familiar—views of a world that may have once been like Earth before experiencing catastrophic climate change.
As I mentioned earlier, LORRI has a fixed aperture and high dynamic range and can use a wide range of exposure settings. One of the coolest targets at Jupiter is the volcanic moon Io. Here’s a LORRI picture of Io taken as New Horizons approached the Jupiter system. The photo used a 4-millisecond exposure. Io is well-exposed, and no stars are ...
The Bruce Murray Space Image Library is a unique collection – recent and past photos and videos from the world’s space agencies, artwork, diagrams, and amateur-processed space images.
About 4.51 billion years ago, a Mars-sized world named Theia is believed to have plowed into Earth. Some of Earth’s mantle was melted in the process, and material leftover from the collision formed the Moon. Could Theia have brought water to Earth in the process? At least one study says yes. Another theory is that Earth simply made its own water.
Mars also changes its distance from the Earth and the Sun as both we and the red planet follow our prescribed orbits, and these distance changes also affect our perception of color. This picture of Mars by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999 was created using filters with wavelengths in red and green ranges. The peak blue wavelength, 410 ...
Earthrise from Lunar Orbiter 1 On August 23, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the time, the full resolution of the image was never retrieved from the data stored from the mission.
Saturn as seen by Voyager 1 The last picture from Voyager 1’s approach to Saturn in which the entire planet and ring system can be seen in a single frame. Image: NASA/JPL/Björn Jónsson Voyager 2's best view of Enceladus This was the Voyager mission's best view of Enceladus, captured by Voyager 2 on August 26, 1981 from a distance of about ...