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The rest of us rely on images made by astronauts’ cameras and the satellites circling the globe ― and, from deeper space, by robotic missions looking back across the solar system. Early balloon and later rocket launches gave us a view of Earth from as high as 100 miles above the planet. Today we can look back at home from 100 million miles ...
- Gallery of NASA Earth Images
Gallery of NASA Earth Images. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman...
- NASA Captures "EPIC" Earth Image
This color image of Earth was taken by NASA’s Earth...
- Earth Now
Welcome to NASA's Eyes, a way for you to learn about your...
- Gallery of NASA Earth Images
- 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.
Feb 8, 2002 · Most NASA images are in the public domain. Reuse of this image is governed by NASA's image use policy. Original image data dated on or about 08 February 2002. Explore related images: Bruce Murray Space Image Library, Earth, Earth observing missions, Full-globe view, Pretty pictures, Space missions, The Earth-Moon system, Worlds
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio produces visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Sciences. They work closely with scientists — both within the NASA community, and within the broader academic research community — to create high-quality, data-backed visualizations. Using ...
