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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.
Colonel Bleep is a 1957 American animated TV series which was the first color cartoon series made for television. [5] It was created and written by Robert D. Buchanan and Jack Schleh on June 8, 1956, [1] and was animated by Soundac, Inc. of Miami. [6]
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 European Space Agency released four stunning images last week that show the sun in all its fiery glory. The images, obtained in March 2023 by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, represent what the agency ...
English: Sun's Path Around the Milky Way. An illustration showing the path of the Sun, Earth and Moon around the Milky Way. The inclinations of the Ecliptic Plane and Celestial Equator are shown with respect to the Galactic North Pole and Galactic Plane. The inclination of the moon's orbit is shown relative to the Ecliptic Plane.
These animations were probably made in black-and-white. The pictures were often traced from live-action films (much like the later rotoscoping technique). [100] [101] 1899 – French trick film pioneer Georges Méliès claimed to have invented the stop trick and popularized it by using it in many of his short films.
According to NASA, nearly 40 CMEs occurred last week, but most did not cause space weather impacts on Earth. This photo shows a vivid northern lights display over a home in Alaska on Nov. 23, 2024.
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