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Past images are stored in the APOD Archive, with the first image appearing on June 16, 1995. [3] This initiative has received support from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and MTU. The images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image ...
Picture of the day. Picture of the day archive; Picture of the day archives. 2004: January: February ... This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.
Picture of the day "The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of Earth. NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew — Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt — all of whom took photographic images during the mission. Apollo 17 passed over Africa during daylight hours and Antarctica is also illuminated.
Picture of the day. Picture of the day archive ... Picture of the day/March 2024#1]] ... was a balloon satellite which was launched by NASA in 1966.
Picture of the day. The Sombrero Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It was discovered in the late 1700s. It is about 28 million light years away and is just faint enough to be invisible to the naked eye but easily visible with small telescopes.
Picture of the day. The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition in 1981.For the first two missions only, the external fuel tank was painted white. The Space Shuttle became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s.
Picture of the day. Io moon taken by NASA's Galileo probe. This image shows two volcanic eruptions. The one on the horizon is 140km high, the other is 75km high. Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. It is named after Io, one of Zeus's many love interests in Greek mythology. Photo credit: NASA Archive - Nominate new image
NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew — Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt — all of whom took photographic images during the mission. Apollo 17 passed over Africa during daylight hours and Antarctica is also illuminated.