The image above shows the first photo captured of Earth from space, taken by a camera mounted to aV-2rocket that was launched from the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Taken to the United States by the dozen from Germany after the end of World War II, the V-2...
Photos can change the way we think about things. This picture of the earth from space was taken by William Anders on the Apollo 8 trip into space. Even though now we can see many pictures of the earth from space, at that time, peoplewere not used to seeingphotos of the earth like th...
"Being in space for a whole year, you get this perspective of seeing the Earth through changing seasons and you know, different lighting conditions," former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently returned from spending a year on the International Space Station, said during a visit to the Whi...
"A couple times a year, the @Space_Station orbit happens to align over the day/night shadow line on Earth," Koch wrote with the posted photo. "We are continuously in sunlight, never passing into Earth's shadow from the sun, and the Earth below us is always in dawn or dusk. Beautiful...
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was quietly doing what it always does — capturing the Earth as it rotates along its axis during its orbit around the sun — when the moon swooped in and photobombed DSCOVR’s snaps for the second time in a year.“...
(Photo courtesy of the China Manned Space Engineering Office) Photo taken by Chinese astronaut, Tang Hongbo, shows lights sparkling below in this sweeping view of Earth. (Photo courtesy of the China Manned Space Engineering Office) Photo taken by Chinese astronaut Liu Boming shows the phoenix-...
space. When the movie frames were stitched together, Clyde Holliday, the engineer who developed the camera, wrote inNational Geographicin 1950, the V-2 photos showed for the first time "how our Earth would look to visitors from another planet coming in on a space ship." (See a panorama ...
NASA Uses Photo Of Earth From Saturn To Boost Space InterestJoe Palca, Melissa Block
We're now in an age where photos of space, taken from space, are becoming commonplace. We're also in an age where someone can swap out the moon for a moon emoji on Twitter. Astronaut Rick Mastracchio posted a photo of the Earth and moon July 25, taken by a NASA camera onboard the...
An epilithic microbial community was launched into low Earth orbit, and exposed to conditions in outer space for 548 days on the European Space Agency EXPOSE-E facility outside the International Space Station. The natural phototroph biofilm was augmented with akinetes of Anabaena cylindrica and veg...