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Dec 23, 2020 · Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard. Image Credit: NASA.
- Earth from The Orion Capsule
- Orion Takes A “Selfie”
- Earth in Black and White
- The “Pale Blue Dot”
- Orion Snaps A Picture of The Moon
Just nine hours after its successful launch, the Orion spacecraft snapped this photo of our home planet as it headed toward the moon. Artemis 1 serves as a test flight to ensure NASA’s equipment is safe for future astronauts, with the agency closely monitoring the spacecraft’s performance. Sensors on board are measuring how well human occupants mig...
On the third day of the mission, Orion captured a “high-resolution selfie” during a routine inspection, using a camera mounted on its solar array wing, according to NASA. At the time, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft was more than halfway to the moon.
Orion’s optical navigation camera captured black-and-white images of Earth on the second day of the mission. The spacecraft uses this instrument to snap pictures of the Earth and moon at varying distances and times. NASA hopes to use these images on future missions to determine the capsule’s position in space, and these early photos will help the s...
At its farthest point, Orion is expected to reach up to 270,000 miles from Earth. Here, its distant view of the Earth against dark space elicits the 1990 image taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from beyond Neptune, which shows Earth as a “pale blue dot.”
The uncrewed spacecraft made its closest flyby of the lunar surface early on Monday, passing 81 miles above the moon, per NASA. As it approached, Orion captured this photo. During the flyby, the capsule was more than 230,000 miles away from Earth. The names Orion and Artemis stem from Greek mythology: Orion is a giant huntsman, and Artemis is the t...
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Dec 18, 2015 · NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. “The image is simply stunning,” said Noah Petro, Deputy Project Scientist for LRO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
- Voyager 1: At 7.2 million miles … and 4 billion miles. Voyager famously captured two unique views of our home world from afar. The upper image, taken in 1977 from a distance of 7.3 million miles (11.7 million km), showed the full Earth and full moon in a single frame for the first time in history.
- Kepler: A bright flashlight in a dark sea of stars. NASA’s Kepler mission captured Earth’s image as it slipped past at a distance of 94 million miles (151 million km).
- Cassini: Hello and goodbye. This beautiful shot of Earth as a dot beneath Saturn’s rings was taken in 2013 as thousands of humans on Earth waved at the exact moment the Cassini spacecraft pointed its cameras at our home world.
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter: “Simply stunning” The image is simply stunning. The image of the Earth evokes the famous Blue Marble image taken by astronaut Harrison Schmitt during Apollo 17 … which also showed Africa prominently in the picture.
Dec 21, 2018 · LRO's superb global lunar maps, combined with the astronauts' own photographs, reveal where Apollo 8 was over the Moon, and even its precise orientation in space, when the astronauts first saw the Earth rising above the Moon's barren horizon.
NASA. The "Blue Marble" is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972 as the Apollo 17 crew made its way to the moon. It's a detailed image of our planet, against the inky black void of...
Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon 's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. [1] [2] [3] Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken". [4]
