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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. The rest of us rely on images made by astronauts’ cameras and the satellites circling the globe ― and, from ...
May 18, 2018 · May 18, 2018 6:50PM. William Anders, Earthrise, 1968. Photo via NASA. Nearly one million miles away, balanced between the gravitational pulls of Sun and Earth, floats a satellite with a contentious history spanning four presidencies and three decades—even though it launched into space only three years ago.
Nov 3, 2022 · by: Sarah Thompson. Share Tweet. Real Photos. Is it impossible to find a "real photo" of Earth taken from space that is not computer generated? No, that's not true: Seventy-six years ago, on October 24, 1946, the first photo of Earth was taken from a V-2 rocket 65 miles above the New Mexico desert.
Jul 20, 2015 · A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away. This color image of Earth was taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope.
- Image Part of CGI Video Depicting Sunrise
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The image in the Facebook post stems from a 2018 stock video available on Pond5, a marketplace for stock photography, videos and other digital content. The image makes an appearanceabout six seconds into the nearly 20-second video. However, in the Facebook post, the image is shifted 90 degrees counterclockwise and lacks the Pond5 watermark. And the...
Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim an image taken by NASA shows what a sunset on Earth looks like from space. The image is a still from a CGI video depicting a sunrise. NASA told USA TODAY the image is not associated with the agency.
Pond5, accessed Nov. 10, Sunrise From Space. Earth From Space. Version 2018pixel25 via Pond5, accessed Nov. 10, All CollectionsBrittany Brown, Nov. 10, email exchange with USA TODAYDec 20, 2023 · Mission Galleries. View images from our missions exploring the universe and our home planet. For a list of all missions, visit the missions A-Z page. Mars Curiosity Rover. Juno Mission to Jupiter. International Space Station. Space Launch System Rocket. Orion Spacecraft.
Daily natural color imagery of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft.
