First Photo Of Earth From Space
The image above shows the first photo captured of earth from space taken by a camera mounted.
First photo of earth from space. Long before the space age has begun in 1957 with the soviet made sputnik 1 on october 24 1946 the first photo of earth from space has been taken. The first photograph of earth from space taken on 24 october 1946. The first pictures showing earth against the blackness of space came in the late 1940s johns hopkins applied physics laboratory hundreds of images were taken over the next few years using similar.
On march 7 1947 not long after the end of world war ii and years before sputnik ushered in the space age a group of soldiers and scientists in the new mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in these grainy black and white photos the first pictures of earth as seen from altitude greater than 100 miles in space. It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history. The first picture of earth from space was taken in 1946 aboard a v 2 rocket but it was grainy and barely recognizable as earth.
After capturing photos of the tumbling atlas 71d rvx 2a continued photographing its view from space reaching a peak altitude of about 1 050 kilometers during its journey over the atlantic. On this day in 1946 before apollo before mercury even before sputnik that was no longer the case. 13 from the white sands missile range a united states army rocket range in southern new mexico.
This photo the first to be taken from 100 miles above earth was. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. White sands missile range applied physics laboratory this is the first photograph of earth ever taken from space.
These photographs would prove to be among the first color photographs of the earth taken from space. This was the first time the apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap despite the southern hemisphere being heavily covered in clouds. First ever from a v 2 rocket crossing the karman line during a sub orbital flight.
Antarctica is visible through clouds bottom. Mengel a nasa pioneer who later oversaw the vanguard program began experimenting with captured german v 2 rockets. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers from the planet s surface.