(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) A NASA spacecraft has given humanity a breathtaking, Mars-eye view of Earth and its moon. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) used its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to capture this new telescopic image of our...
NASA released Juno's family portrait of Earth and the moon on Monday (Aug. 30). It shows the Earth as a bright white disk on a vast field of black space. The moon appears as a tiny speck of light to the Earth's right. Juno beamed the photo home about 25 days after its Aug. 5...
Here’s a beautiful photo of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured back on October 3, 2007 by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Our planet was about 88 million miles away from the camera. The photo isn’t an accurate representation of the distance between...
Frozen oceans, glaciers, and precipitous mountains are more akin to a scene from George Lucas’s planet Hoth (from The Empire Strikes Back) than the earth we know. It is a stunning, dramatic, epic landscape that makes for other-worldly photographic possibilities for photographers looking for an...
As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, NASA has published a satellite photograph of Earth to its Flickr stream in which the storm is clearly
Earth from both near and far. But there was a time not that long ago when there were no pictures of Earth from space, when a view of our planet against the blackness of the cosmos was limited to the imagination of dreamers and artists and there was nothing but the Moon orbiting our ...
Many photos of Earth taken from space have entered into legend;The Blue Marble’s beautiful, glowing globe is one of the most recognizable images of all time, andCarl Sagan’sPale Blue Dotput our planet’s place in the vastness of the universe into poignant perspective. The first image of...
二、阅读理解Imagine trying to take a photo of an orange on the moon with your mobile phone on the earth.It seems impossible. That's what it was like for scientists trying to take a photo of a black hole in space. Even though it was a tall order, an inter-national team of over 200...
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...
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.“...