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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 images are sometimes authored by people or organizations outside NASA, and therefore APOD images are often copyrighted, unlike many other NASA image galleries. [ 4 ] When the APOD website was created, it received a total of 14 page views on its first day.
File: The Sun by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - 20100819.jpg
NASA offered extensive coverage of the August 21 total solar eclipse and the space agency isn't done sharing. NASA shared an "Image of the Day" on Wednesday, showing the moon's shadow, or umbra ...
By coincidence, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory managed to capture a similarly spooky image of the sun. Say cheese! 📸 Today, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the Sun "smiling."
This means the image of NGC 2566 represents how the galaxy looked 76 million years ago and not how it appears in the present day. NASA says light travels at 11.16 million miles per minute, which ...
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.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content.