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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.
Discover stunning Earth images and pictures of Earth from space. Browse our vast collection of high-quality stock photos and find the perfect image for your project.
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...
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.
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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, astronauts...
Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why. Related images: Published November 19, 2024. The volcano’s first snow of the season fell in early November 2024—the latest in a 130-year record—only to apparently vanish within a few days. Related images: Published November 16, 2024.
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 ...
Check out this gallery of NASA Earth images! View large images or print them.
Astronauts photograph the Earth from their unique point of view in low Earth orbit. Photographs record how the planet is changing over time, from human-caused changes like urban growth and reservoir construction, to natural dynamic events such as hurricanes, floods and volcanic eruptions.