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Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) New York City, United States 35 mm The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day. [48] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb: 1945 George Silk: Hiroshima, Japan [s 2]
USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 26 November 1965 France launches its first satellite, Asterix, from a rocket Diamant, becoming the world's third space power. France Diamant: 15 ...
NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (ALSJ) [1] records the details of each mission's period on the lunar surface as a timeline of the activities undertaken, the dialogue between the crew and Mission Control, and the relevant documentary records. Each photograph taken on the mission is catalogued there and each photographic sequence (i.e ...
First direct image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), (AS11-40-5923). [20] [47] November 24, 1969 Apollo 12: First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth ...
These were being displayed in real-time back on Earth, and the Pioneer program would later receive an Emmy award for this presentation to the media. The motion of the spacecraft produced geometric distortions that later had to be corrected by computer processing. [42] During the encounter, a total of more than 500 images were transmitted. [43]
The camera system was designed to obtain images of Jupiter's satellites at resolutions 20 to 1,000 times better than Voyager 's best, because Galileo flew closer to the planet and its inner moons, and because the more modern CCD sensor in Galileo 's camera was more sensitive and had a broader color detection band than the vidicons of Voyager. [2]
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled. The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013.