Pictures Of Earth From Space Nasa
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Pictures of earth from space nasa. July 20 2015 nasa captures epic earth image 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. Early balloon and later rocket launches gave us a view of earth from as high as 100 miles above the planet.
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. This marked the fourth successful nasa earth science launch out of five scheduled during a 12 month period. Antarctica is visible through clouds bottom.
The large image will appear on your browser page ready to print. 10 aboard the spacex crs 5 mission. Nasa this picture of the earth and moon in a single frame was taken by the galileo spacecraft from about 3 9 million miles away.
Today we can look back at home from 100 million miles. The cloud aerosol transport system instrument built at nasa s goddard space flight center in greenbelt maryland launched to the international space station on jan. To print click the print icon in the top right hand corner of the thumbnail.