The Earth from the Moon. Credit: NASA Fifty years ago, on August 23, 1966, NASA captured the first images of Earth from the moon. According to a story on Mashable.com, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the above photograph during a mission to locate potential landing spots for...
Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Houston, Texas on March 3rd after one year in space. The Expedition 46 Commander along with Flight Engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz TMA-18M capsule in...
The Earth From a dusty atmosphere stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to daily views of clouds at sunrise, a new NASA camera keeping a steady eye on the sunlit side of Earth is yielding new insights about our changing planet. With NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging...
Image credit: DSCOVR EPIC Team/NASA. This breathtaking image was captured by the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) about 1 million miles from Earth. The photo is the first of its kind captured since Apollo 17...
(Above: China’s recently launched spacecraft captured this unique image of the Earth and Moon. Credit: Xinhua News and unmannedspaceflight.com) China’s Chang’e-5 T1 spacecraft has captured some amazing images of Earth and the moon since its launch on October...
