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- November 2000 --A mass of storm clouds was observed and recorded from the International Space Station (ISS) by the Expedition 1 crew members. The picture, made with an Electrical Still Camera (ESC), was the first Earth observation still image downlinked by the three-man crew.
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Mar 6, 2009 · 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.
Photography and other imagery of planet Earth from outer space started in the 1940s, first from rockets in suborbital flight, subsequently from satellites around Earth, and then from spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit.
Oct 23, 2022 · When the movie frames were stitched together, Clyde Holliday, the engineer who developed the camera, wrote in National Geographic in 1950, the V-2 photos showed for the first time “how our...
Oct 24, 2006 · The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range.
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Aug 7, 2019 · The first satellite image of Earth captured by Explorer 6 on August 14, 1959. Explorer 6 was the first scientific satellite under the direction of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, which went on to operate tracking and communications networks for the crewed missions of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
Apr 1, 2019 · On April 1, 1960, U.S. weather satellite TIROS-1 sends the very first TV picture of the Earth from space. Today, we are used to satellite pictures from the earth in the daily weather report. But, there was a time some 50 years ago, when pictures of the earth from space were still something exciting.
Apr 17, 2023 · The first picture of Earth from space, taken on Oct. 24, 1946. Credit: White Sands Missile Range / Applied Physics Laboratory. The first images of Earth, though low-resolution and ghostly,...
