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Everything that happens on the International Space Station revolves around one thing: Earth, sixteen times a day! So for Earth Day, NASA offers a gift you can’t get anywhere else with this leisurely view of our home planet, from 250 miles up, rendered in extraordinary ultra-high definition video.
Fifty years after Apollo 17 astronauts photographed the iconic “blue marble” image, cameras in space have again captured distant views of our home planet. Two spacecraft designed to study the Sun also got some recent peeks at Earth and other planets.
Voyager famously captured two unique views of our home world from afar. The upper image, taken in 1977 from a distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million km), showed the full Earth and full moon...
NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.
Looking at Earth: From 100 miles to 100 million miles. Only a select few men and women have looked at Earth from space firsthand. From that exceptional viewpoint they have marveled at both the beauty and the fragility of our planet.
The astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station take pictures and videos of Earth nearly every day, and over a year, that adds up to thousands of photos. In 2017,...
This true-color image shows North and South America as they would appear from space 35,000 km (22,000 miles) above the Earth. The image is a combination of data from two satellites.