end of World War II and years before Sputnik ushered in the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in these grainy black-and-white-photos — the first pictures of Earth as seen from altitude greater than 100 miles in space....
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Captured by NASA’s Operational Land Imager, this image of Yakutat Glacier in Alaska highlights the stunning beauty of glacier ice as seen from space. Unfortunately, pictures of the glacier also show just how much climate change has caused it to shrink. Scientists predict the Yakutat Glacier coul...
During one of the most daring spacewalks ever performed, astronaut Bruce McCandless left the space shuttle using a Manned Maneuvering Unit. For a few hours, he was completely separated from our planet and the shuttle, and he spent his time admiring the beauty of our home world. 03 of ...
Watch Earth live from space, track the ISS orbit, and discover when the space station is visible in the night sky from your location.
Watch Earth live from space, track the ISS orbit, and discover when the space station is visible in the night sky from your location.
This paper considers a number of questions concerning the interpretation of infrared pictures of the earth taken from space. Long period mean statistical values of the contrasts in radiation temperature between the earth's surface and clouds for a number of points in the U.S.S.R. in different...
4.24 China Space Day April 24, 2025 marks the 10th China Space Day, themed "Over the Sea Rises the Bright Moon, Embracing the Starry River in the Ninth Heaven." The line "The sea mirrors the rising moon bright; Miles apart, our he...
The first breath-taking pictures of the Earth taken from space showed it as a solid ball covered by brown land masses and blue-green oceans. We had never seen the Earth from that distance before. To us, it appeared as though the Earth had always looked that way and always would. ...
Before leaving the neighborhood, the four took a spin around the space station, taking pictures. This was a first for SpaceX. NASA's shuttles used to do it all the time before their retirement a decade ago. The last Russian capsule fly-around was three years ago. ...