1. “Blue Marble” - a famous photograph of the Earth, in which it is visible in its entirety. The photo was taken on December 7, 1972, when Apollo 17 left Earth orbit and headed towards the Moon. The sun was on the opposite side, and the crew was able to take this magnificent photo of the blue planet. The first complete photograph of the Earth.

2. The first photograph of the Earth from the Moon

In this photograph taken by spacecraft"Lunar-Orbiter 1" August 23, 1966, view of the Earth from the Moon. From a distance of about 380,000 km, we can see the surface of the Earth from Istanbul to Cape Town. In the areas to the west it is night.

3. The first color photograph of the rising Earth

When the program was launched in 1968"Apollo 8", her task was to make high resolution photographs of the lunar surface. But after finishing the photo shoot on the far side of the Moon, the spacecraft crew took this now famous photo. Dubbed "Earthrise," this shot of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon reminds people of the fragility of their home.

4. The first photograph of Earth from Mars

This is the first image of Earth from Mars, taken on May 8, 2003 by the camera of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. From a distance of 139 million kilometers, the Earth looks like an illuminated slice: only the western hemisphere is visible. From afar, the scale of the world in which we live is better understood.

5. The first panoramic photograph from the surface of Mars

Soon after the Viking 1 spacecraft landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, its camera 2 took this first image from the Martian surface. The panoramic (300-degree) photograph shows the Cris Planitia region, a low plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The camera's field of view included parts of the landing apparatus and stones ranging in size from 10 to 20 centimeters in diameter.

6. The first photograph of the Martian surface

July 20, 1976 Viking 1 spacecraft took the first ever photograph of the Martian surface. One of the spacecraft's three legs is visible, covered in dust on the rock-strewn surface of Mars. Cameras attached to different places Vikinga 1 helped scientists determine distances on the surprisingly earth-like surface of the red planet.

7. The first color photograph from Venus

Despite the temperature of 482 degrees and atmospheric pressure 92 times higher than Earth's, on March 1, 1982, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 13 was able to take the first color photographs of the desert surface of Venus. In addition to the surface, the photograph shows zigzag-shaped parts of the descent module. The 170-degree panoramic camera was equipped with blue, green and red filters.

8. First photo from Titan

As can be seen in this composition, the surface Saturn's moon is an almost flat plain strewn with rocks the size of oranges. For comparison, here is a photo from the surface of the Moon. January 14, 2005 as part of the Cassini-Huygens mission ( joint project USA and ESA) 1,100 images were taken during the landing on Titan.

9. The first photo of an exoplanet

In this image taken by the Southern European Observatory, the first known exoplanet (a planet beyond solar system). The red sphere at the bottom of the picture is a young planet, similar in physical properties to Jupiter. It orbits a brown dwarf - a dim, dying star with 42 times the mass of the Sun. This is an infrared camera image from a distance of approximately 230 light years.

10. First photograph of the Sun

Using something new for its time daguerreotype technology, on April 2, 1845, French scientists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault took the first successful photograph of the Sun. The original photo (at 1/60 shutter speed) was 12 centimeters in diameter and showed several sunspots. They are also visible in this reproduction.

11. Photo of the deepest space

800x exposure per 400 telescope rotations Hubble's orbit (September 2003 to January 2004) produced this galaxy-filled image of deep space. Nearly 10,000 galaxies are visible in the image taken by the advanced camera for surveys as part of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field program. Scientists say it's like looking at the sky for a long time through a 2.4-meter straw. So you get a piece of deep space.

12. Imprint on the Moon

Symbol of the giant step of all humanity- this small footprint of astronaut Edwin Aldrin on the surface of the Moon. The astronaut himself took this photo during NASA's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

13. The first photographs from the surface of another planet

From June to October 1975, the Soviet space probe Venera 9 photographed Venus. It became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around another planet and land on its surface. Venera 9 consisted of a descent vehicle and orbiters: they separated in orbit. The 2,300-kilogram orbiter maintained communications and photographed the planet in ultraviolet light. And the descent capsule entered the planet’s atmosphere and sank to the surface with the help of several parachutes. A special panoramic photometer on board the probe took these 180-degree panoramic photographs of the surface of Venus.

The globe in our imagination seems to be a gigantic system that functions according to its own rules. Everything in our world is relative. If we consider the Earth as a planet in the solar system, it will not be so large in size relative to others.

Our planet is very beautiful, no matter how you look at it. The earth's landscapes are pleasing to the eye, the fauna and flora are delightful. Images taken on orbiting satellites or the ISS open up even more opportunities for us to see the enchanting beauty of the Earth, which should be preserved and protected.

Photo of the Earth from Space in high quality

The photographs of the globe that are published in this section of our website are authentic and taken by astronauts of the International space station. Very few people get the chance to observe our planet from space. So we thank the European Space Agency, NASA and the astronauts for the footage they make available for public viewing. Previously, you could only see something like this in Hollywood films, but there these photographs were not always real.

Images of the Earth from Space are of interest not only to military personnel, meteorologists, and surveyors. Everyone wants to look at the giant ball from afar and find their approximate location on it. Looking at photographs like this high quality, you are amazed by the beauty and fragility of our planet. How great is the diversity of landscapes and climatic conditions... In the photographs you can see coastline continents, see large sizes atmospheric vortices, glaciers in Antarctica and the Arctic, deserts and mountains, cities and megalopolises.

The photographs of the Earth at night are incredibly beautiful. The darkened side of the planet sparkles with many lights. From them we can draw conclusions about the size of individual cities and the geography of human settlement.

Real photos of the Earth from Space

When flying on an airplane and looking out the window, you can see the sky, clouds, and earthly landscapes. People who jump from a plane with a parachute are not only driven by the feeling of adrenaline, but also by the desire to see the earth's surface from a bird's eye view. The Earth looks completely different from Space. The portal site selects for visitors only real, high-quality photos that change our imagination about the Universe. The feelings we get when viewing them cannot be compared with anything on earth. View of the planet from mysterious space cannot be expressed in words. Only people who have conquered outer space - our cosmonauts - can describe it. We are proud that it was our compatriot, Yuri Gagarin, who became the first space traveler. It is thanks to the achievements of science, which allowed man to overcome the force of gravity, that now everyone can see what is impossible to see from Earth.

Thinking about the meaning of life, the arrangement of the world, what awaits us in a decade, it is impossible to find an answer to these questions. In photos taken from spaceships, the Earth appears round and small. Actually this is not true. It’s just that the distance from which photography is taken is gigantic.

The most interesting thing, of course, would be not to watch a video or photo, but to see this wonderful planet called Earth live from Space. Perhaps that time is just around the corner. Some of us will overcome the force of gravity, see the beauty of the planet from afar and do more than one beautiful photo. He will be incredibly proud and happy to receive a ticket to Space!

I often come across interesting views of the Earth from space. It’s somehow not interesting to publish them separately, but by putting some effort and putting them together, you can get a very informative note. In fact, the photographs were collected and remembered for at least two years. So, I think this is one of the most detailed materials on this topic. All images are clickable.

Earthrise(Earthrise) is the title of a photograph of our planet taken by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the flight of the Apollo 8 spacecraft around the Moon. Perhaps the most famous view of the earth from space.

Blue ball(Blue Marble) is a photograph of planet Earth taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft from a distance of approximately 29 thousand kilometers from the Earth’s surface.

In 2002, NASA stitched together from a huge number of images new version famous photograph.

This is currently available.

Distant Earth and Moon. The photograph was taken on September 18, 1977 by Voyager 1 from a distance of 11.5 million kilometers.

And this is a composite image collected from photographs of the Galileo spacecraft.

The image is a composite of 165 photographs taken by the Cassini spacecraft on September 15, 2006. Our planet is a point on the top right in the void between the dense rings and the penultimate ring.

Pale blue dot(Pale Blue Dot). Earth as seen by Voyager 1 from a record distance of 5.9 billion kilometers. (Dot on the right side of the top line)

Niger River, Republic of Mali.

The sun rises over the Pacific Ocean.

The image is a composite of four photographs taken by ESA's OSIRIS space camera.

No matter how usual it is to see the northern lights from below, from the Earth, from space they look much more spectacular.

Russian space station Mir over the Earth. Photo taken from the Atlantis shuttle in June 1995.

The photo shows the shadow of the moon over Cyprus and Turkey. This is complete solar eclipse happened on March 29, 2006.

NASA astronaut Robert L. Stewart soars above the clouds. Photo taken from the Challenger shuttle in February 1984.

Planet earth reflected in the helmet of astronaut Clayton C. Anderson on August 15, 2007.

And earlier I showed you the most beautiful and stunning ones.

October 25, 2016 at 04:09 pm

70 years since the first photograph of the Earth from space

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The first photograph of the Earth from space was taken on film on October 24, 1946, from a V-2 ballistic missile.

On October 24, 1946, long before the Soviet Sputnik 1 officially ushered in the space age, a small search party of American scientists and soldiers gathered in the New Mexico desert. They were tasked with finding the crash site of a V-2 rocket and a cassette with 35mm film.

People were preparing to see something incredible for the first time in their history: what the Earth looks like from space.

On that day, the V-2 ballistic missile was launched from launch pad White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, USA. Unlike Wernher von Braun's previous rocket launches, the V-2 was now launched vertically.

A movie camera loaded with 35mm film took one frame every 1.5 seconds. The rocket rose to a height of about 105 kilometers and then fell down, crashing into the ground at a speed of 150 meters per second. The camera was completely broken, but the film itself in the steel cassette remained intact.

19-year-old US Army private Fred Rulli was one of the members of the search party sent on October 24, 1946. The military members of the expedition were not particularly impressed by the find. But something incredible happened to the scientists. When they found the steel cassette intact, they were overcome with utter delight: “They jumped like children,” recalls Rulli. Complete madness began when the film was delivered to the launch site, developed and the photographs were shown on the screen for the first time: “The scientists simply went crazy,” stated a private.

Until that time, the record photograph of the earth's surface taken from the highest altitude remained the image from the American military helium balloon Explorer II, which rose into the air at 22,066 m in 1935. High enough to record the curvature of the globe (for the first time in the history of photography, the curvature of the horizon was captured on August 31, 1933 by aeronaut Alexander Dalya).

The camera on the V-2 rocket broke the record more than five times. People saw how our bright planet looks against the backdrop of the darkness of space.

“The photographs show for the first time what our Earth looks like to aliens arriving in spacecraft,” said Clyde Holliday, rocket camera designer, in a commentary for National Geographic. This magazine published an article about unique photography in 1950, when film frames were glued together into a single whole.

The result of a montage of footage taken during the launch of the V-2 on October 24, 1946

It was an amazing event.

Engineer Wernher von Braun (with a handkerchief in his jacket pocket)

The launch on October 24, 1946 was one of many experiments in the V-2 research program conducted by a group of engineers led by Wernher von Braun who were brought to work in the United States after the war as part of Operation Paperclip. For them, the US Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) created fictitious biographies and removed references to NSDAP membership and ties to the Nazi regime from public records. The general public learned about this secret operation by accident in December 1946, when chief design engineer Walter Riedel became the subject of a published article, “German Scientist Claims American Food Is Tasteless and Chicken Like Rubber.”

From 1946 to 1950, thanks to the V-2 launches, the Americans took more than 1,000 photographs of the Earth from altitudes of up to 160 km.

The famous German engineer Wernher von Braun began working on a rocket with liquid fuel in 1930. A key influence on him was Professor Hermann Oberth, who is called one of the six founders of modern rocketry and cosmonautics, along with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Yuri Kondratyuk (and at the beginning of the twentieth century, Kondratyuk calculated the optimal flight trajectory to the Moon, which NASA later used in lunar program"Apollo"), Friedrich Zander, Robert Hainault-Peltrie and Robert Goddard.

Wernher von Braun later recalled his mentor: “Hermann Oberth was the first who, having thought about the possibility of creating spaceships, picked up a slide rule and presented mathematically based ideas and designs... Personally, I see in him not only the guiding star of my life, but I also owe him my first contacts with theoretical and practical issues of rocketry and space flight.”

After the launch of the first satellites, photographing the Earth became one of the main tasks of government and then private programs. The Earth was filmed not only from satellites, but also from other spacecraft. For example, the American manned spacecraft launched on September 12, 1966 spacecraft Gemini 11 took the photo from an altitude of 1368 km.

Photo from Gemini 11

Three years later, in July 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 took the famous photograph of the Earth above the lunar horizon. The image was taken from lunar orbit at a distance of about 400,000 km from Earth.

Photo from Apollo 11

Another scale of the Earth is shown in a photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 15 on July 26, 1971.

Photo from Apollo 15

With each passing decade, our spacecraft moved further and further into space, exploring the vastness of the solar system. On November 3, 1973, NASA launched the automatic interplanetary station Mariner 10 - the first successful launch in the Mariner series. She became the first to visit Mercury on March 29, 1974. On the way to Mercury, the device took a photograph of the Earth and the Moon from a distance of 2.57 million km, photographing them together for the first time.

Perhaps the most remarkable photograph of the Earth was taken by the Voyager 1 probe on June 6, 1990, ten years after the start of its journey.

Photo of Earth from Voyager 1 (distance 6.05 billion km)

This photo went down in history as

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Earth online— video broadcast is carried out directly from several ISS cameras. It is possible to see astronauts going into outer space. Basically, only part of the station is visible and the earth from the satellite is floating in the background.

ISS webcam periodically changes direction.

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