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Oct 24, 2006 · Before 1946, the highest pictures ever taken of the Earth’s surface were from the Explorer II balloon, which had ascended 13.7 miles in 1935, high enough to discern the curvature of the...
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Oct 23, 2022 · Before 1946, the highest pictures ever taken of the Earth’s surface were from the Explorer II balloon, which had ascended 13.7 miles in 1935, high enough to discern the curvature of the...
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Sep 23, 2016 · NASA says this "is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon". In this shot, Earth is roughly 161 million miles (259 million km) away. Source: NASA
Dec 18, 2018 · On 24 December 1968, Apollo 8 completed the first circumnavigation of the moon by humans. As it emerged from the dark side, Earth crept over the lunar horizon. It was the first time anybody had ...
Apr 3, 2024 · The image of Earth and moon was taken from 804,000 miles away by NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft. From the image, you can still Earth's marble form, a mix of blue and green. The earth and moon are around a quarter million miles apart in this photo. NASA's OSIRIS REx spacecraft traveled to the rubbly asteroid Bennu to gather a sample.
Mar 13, 2015 · This NASA picture of the Earth and the moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 ...
Before the Small Steps Program began in 1946 using V-2 rockets to take images from space, the highest pictures ever taken of the Earth's surface were from the Explorer II balloon, which ascended 13.7 miles in 1935, high enough to discern the curvature of the Earth.
