First Picture Of Earth From Space
Though the photo eventually became one of the most used images in history it wasnt the first to show earth from deep space.
First picture of earth from space. 10 exceptional images of earth from space. Life on a pale blue dot. That honor went to the black and white image you see above. First photo from space in 1946 rocket borne cameras gave us our first look at earth from beyond the atmosphere view of earth from a camera on v 2 13 launched october 24 1946.
The blue marble was not the first clear image taken of an illuminated face of earth since similar shots from the ats 3 satellite had already been made as early as 1967. 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. Blue marble the blue marble image of earth captured in 2012. Take a trip through the history of earth photography in our gallery from the first earthrise images to a look at our precious planet from the outermost reaches of our solar system.
Armys white sands missile range in new mexico. See pictures of milestones in space photography in this photo gallery from national geographic. Spacex crew dragon launch docking and returns to earth from iss international space station mar 8 duration. Nasas first image of the whole earth in decades.
The image above shows the first photo captured of earth from space taken by a camera mounted to a v 2 rocket that was launched from the us.