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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.
True color image of the Earth from space. This image is a composite image collected over 16 days by the MODIS sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite. NASA Earth science satellite fleet as of September 2020, planned through 2023. Earth observation satellite missions developed by the ESA as of 2019.
First high-resolution (sub-meter spatial resolution) satellite photography (classified). [27] 1964 Quill: First radar images of Earth from space, using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). [28] This shows part of Richmond, Virginia. March 18, 1965 Voskhod 2: First image and movie of Earth with a human (Alexei Leonov) floating in space (the first ...
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.
The first images from space were taken on the sub-orbital V-2 rocket flight launched by the US on October 24, 1946. Satellite image of Fortaleza.. Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
Spot-5 Satellite Athens as seen by the SPOT 5 satellite in 2002. SPOT (French: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, [1] lit. "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical Earth imaging satellite system operating from space.
Astronaut, Susan Helms, looking out the window on the International Space Station. Windows on Earth is a museum exhibit, website, and exploration tool, developed by TERC, Inc. (an educational non-profit organization, previously called Technical Education Research Centers [1]), and the Association of Space Explorers, that enables the public to explore an interactive, virtual view of Earth from ...
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 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.