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Apr 21, 2024 · DSCOVR: Moon photobombs Earth. Earth and moon from a million miles out. Image via NASA / NOAA. This image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the...
Jul 20, 2015 · A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. This color image of Earth was taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope.
Timeline of first images of Earth from space. Photography and other imagery of planet Earth from outer space [a] started in the 1940s, first from rockets in suborbital flight, subsequently from satellites around Earth, and then from spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit.
Jul 22, 2013 · Pictures of Earth from the outer solar system are rare because from that distance, Earth appears very close to our sun. A camera’s sensitive detectors can be damaged by looking directly at the sun, just as a human being can damage his or her retina by doing the same.
Nov 19, 2020 · After 20 years of continuous human presence, the International Space Station (ISS) has provided 241 visitors with an extraordinary view of Earth from outer space — one they have shared with the rest of the world.
The rest of us rely on images made by astronauts’ cameras and the satellites circling the globe ― and, from deeper space, by robotic missions looking back across the solar system. Early balloon and later rocket launches gave us a view of Earth from as high as 100 miles above the planet.
Jul 22, 2013 · PASADENA, Calif. -- Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.
