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galleries. Looking at Earth: From 100 miles to 100 million miles. Only a select few men and women have looked at Earth from space firsthand. From that exceptional viewpoint they have marveled at both the beauty and the fragility of our planet.
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- Voyager 1: at 7.2 Million Miles … and 4 Billion Miles
- Kepler: A Bright Flashlight in A Dark Sea of Stars
- Cassini: Hello and Goodbye
- OSIRIS-REx: Goodbye – For Now – at 19,000 Mph
- Curiosity: The View from Mars
- Galileo: 8 Days Out
- Rosetta: A Slice of Life
- Messenger: So Long
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. The second image, taken in 1990 as part of a family portrait of our solar system from 4 billion miles (6.4...
NASA’s Kepler mission captured Earth’s imageas it slipped past at a distance of 94 million miles (151 million km). The reflection was so extraordinarily bright that it created a saber-like saturation bleed across the instrument’s sensors, obscuring the neighboring moon.
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. Then, in 2017, Cassini caught this final view of Earth between Saturn’s rings as the spacecraft spiraled in for its Grand Finaleat Saturn.
As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-RExspacecraft captured this image of Earth and the moon in January 2018 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from our home planet at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 km per second). Earth is the largest, brightes...
A human observer with normal vision, standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moonas two distinct, bright “evening stars.”
Eight days after its final encounter with Earth – the second of two gravitational assists from Earth that helped boost the spacecraft to Jupiter – the Galileo spacecraft looked back and captured this remarkable view of our planet and its moon. The image was taken from a distance of about 3.9 million miles (6.2 million km).
Earth from about 393,000 miles(633,000 km) away, as seen by the European Space Agency’s comet-bound Rosetta spacecraft during its 3rd and final swing-by of our home planet in 2009.
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earthduring a gravity assist swing-by of its home planet on August 2, 2005. Bottom line: Ten amazing images of Earth from space.
Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.
- Trio of multicolored lakes. The Landsat 8 satellite, which is co-owned by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, snapped a striking real-color image of a trio of multicolored lakes in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley: Lake Shala (left), Lake Abijatta (center) and Lake Langano (right).
- Undersea "sharkcano" eruption. The Landsat 9 satellite captured a stunning shot of an underwater eruption plume from the Kavachi volcano in the southwest Pacific Ocean, whose summit lies approximately 65 feet (20 m) below sea level.
- Pair of bizarre blue blobs. An astronaut on board the ISS snapped an image of Earth that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere.
- Swirling silver sunglint. Another ISS astronaut captured a stunning photograph of a "sunglint" that transformed the sea’s surface into a swirling, silver mirror surrounding a pair of Greek islands.
The astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station take pictures and videos of Earth nearly every day, and over a year, that adds up to thousands of photos. In 2017,...
