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HERE: This view of Earth from the International Space Station is a still from live 24/7 video by NASA's HD Earth Viewing experiment, which streams live views of our planet from space. It was ...
Lightning from above | Space photo of the day for May 23, 2025 'Nothing short of spectacular': ESA's Biomass satellite releases 1st views of Earth from orbit (photos) Blue Marble from Suomi NPP.
Since the first pictures of Earth were taken from space, amazing Earth photos have been sent back, including the Blue Marble images and views of our planet from deep space.
The U.S. Space Force released a breathtaking image of Earth from its mysterious space plane that ... Previous X-37B missions were flown in low Earth orbit, but the photo shared on Friday reveals ...
An astronaut who served on the ISS and members of NASA's Earth Science and Remote Sensing unit share their favorite photos of Earth taken from space. Skip to main content. Menu ...
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...
This infrared photo, taken from 2.2 million miles away, reveals the vast distance between Earth and the moon — 239,000 miles, about 30 times the diameter of Earth.
In 1968, astronauts captured the first color photo of Earth rising over the Moon, viewed live by over 500 million people. This historic image is credited with inspiring the global environmental ...
The photo was taken from about 105 kilometers (65 miles) above Earth by a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range long before Sputnik truly began the space age in 1957.
The United States Space Force has unexpectedly published a photo its top-secret X-37B space plane took while orbiting the Earth last year. The image, which the military arm shared on X-formerly ...
The First Photo From Space ... (62.5 miles) is considered space. More than 1,000 Earth pictures were returned from V-2s between 1946 and 1950, from altitudes as high as 100 miles.
Before the White Sands photos, the highest photo ever taken was from the Explorer II balloon in 1935, 13.7 miles up, just high enough to make out the curvature of the Earth.