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  2. The Blue Marble - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Pale Blue Dot

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    This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera.

  4. Earthrise - Wikipedia

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    The images were fully defined via Rodriguez's then-state-of-the-art, self-replenishing, Mylar-leader, continuous-feed roll-photo paper processor produced by the Nord photo company then based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [citation needed] The stamp issue reproduces the cloud, color, and crater patterns of the Anders picture.

  5. Pale Blue Dot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Timeline of first images of Earth from space - Wikipedia

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    First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. [32] [33] [34] [7] [19] December 11, 1966 ATS-1: First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit. [35] First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit. [35] [image needed] January 1967

  7. List of Earth observation satellites - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Worried about asteroids? This is the scale NASA uses to ... - AOL

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    The Torino Impact Hazard Scale, named after the Italian city where it was first presented to the space-monitoring community in 1999, categorizes asteroids by both number and color. At its peak ...

  9. Earth tone - Wikipedia

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    Earth tone is used by the architect to bring harmony between nature surrounding the building and the building together. [citation needed] The tone improves relaxation in the house and residence, and also, the atmosphere of cozy warm luxurious modern. Due to the fact that earth tone or natural color is comfortable and pleasing to the eye.