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Constellation: Earth Moon Ma …
Description Constellation: Earth Moon Mars
Earth and Moon
This picture of the Earth an …
4/2/09
Description This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame was taken by the Galileo spacecraft from about 3.9 million miles away. Antarctica is visible through clouds (bottom). The Moon's far side is seen, the shadowy indentation in the dawn terminator is the south pole Aitken Basin, one of the largest and oldest lunar impact features.
Date 4/2/09
Earth at Night
This composite image, which …
4/2/09
Description This composite image, which has become a popular poster, shows a global view of Earth at night, compiled from over 400 satellite images. NASA researchers have used these images of nighttime lights to study weather around urban areas.
Date 4/2/09
Big Blue Marble
NASA's mission has always be …
4/22/08
Description NASA's mission has always been to explore, to discover and to understand the world in which we live from the unique vantage point of space, and to share our newly gained perspectives with the public. That spirit of sharing remains true today as NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built, helping scientists make some of the most detailed observations ever made of our world. Image Credit: NASA
Date 4/22/08
TIROS' First Look
The first photo of Earth fro …
4/2/09
Description The first photo of Earth from a weather satellite, taken by the TIROS-1 satellite on April 1, 1960. Early photographs provided new information on cloud systems, including spiral formations associated with large storms, immediately proving their value to meteorologists.
Date 4/2/09
Whole Earth
This image from Apollo 17, a …
4/2/09
Description This image from Apollo 17, and others like it, captured whole hemispheres of water, land and weather. This photo was the first view of the south polar ice cap. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is visible, along with the Arabian Peninsula.
Date 4/2/09
Robot Over the Horizon
The Space Shuttle Endeavour' …
4/2/09
Description The Space Shuttle Endeavour's robotic arm hovers over Earth's horizon, backdropped by a starburst from the Sun. This photo was taken during the STS-77 shuttle mission in 1996.
Date 4/2/09
Neither Perpendicular nor Pa …
Most ISS images are nadir, i …
11/3/08
Description Most ISS images are nadir, in which the center point of the image is directly beneath the lens of the camera, but this one is not. This highly oblique image of northwestern African captures the curvature of the Earth and shows its atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent other constituents, and it shields us from nearly all harmful radiation coming from the sun and other stars. It also protects us from meteors, most of which burn up before they can strike the planet. Affected by changes in solar activity, the upper atmosphere contributes to weather and climate on Earth. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/UCSD/JSC
Date 11/3/08
Earthrise
Apollo 8, the first manned m …
12/24/08
Description Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts--Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders--held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis. Visit the Apollo 8 page for audio and video of the historic mission. Image Credit: NASA
Date 12/24/08
Comparison of Images
Comparison of high resolutio …
11/13/08
Description Comparison of high resolution image showing the Earth at LPI website and LOIRP image. Photo Credit: LOIRP
Date 11/13/08
Lunar Orbiter 1
The world's first view of Ea …
11/13/08
Description The world's first view of Earth as released to the public taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA / LOIRP
Date 11/13/08
Ozone Hole
The Antarctic ozone hole rea …
4/2/09
Description The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million square kilometers, or 10.5 million square miles. The area is calculated using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument on NASA's Aura satellite. This is considered a "moderately large" ozone hole, according to NASA atmospheric scientist, Paul Newman. And while this year's ozone hole is the fifth largest on record, the amount of ozone depleting substances have decreased about 3.8% from peak levels in 2000. The largest ozone hole ever recorded occurred in 2006, at a size of 10.6 million square miles. NASA has been monitoring the status of the ozone layer through satellite observations since the 1970s.
Date 4/2/09
LOIRP Moon
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NAS …
11/13/08
Description MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. Using refurbished machinery and modern digital technology, NASA produced the image at a much higher resolution than was possible when it was originally taken. The data may help the next generation of explorers as NASA prepares to return to the moon. Read press release Image Credit: NASA / LOIRP
Date 11/13/08
STEREO Sees Lunar Transit
This transit of the moon acr …
6/9/08
Description This transit of the moon across the sun on Feb. 25, 2007, could not be seen from Earth. This sight was visible only from the STEREO-B spacecraft in its orbit about the sun, trailing behind the Earth. NASA's STEREO mission consists of two spacecraft launched in October 2006 to study solar storms. When STEREO-B captured this image, it was about one million miles from the Earth. That's about 4.4 times farther away from the moon than we are on Earth. As a result, the moon appeared about 4.4 times smaller than what we are used to. This alignment of STEREO-B and the moon was not just due to luck. It was arranged with a small tweak to STEREO-B's orbit in December 2006. The sun as it appears here is a composite of images in four different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light that were separated into color channels and then recombined. Image credit: NASA
Date 6/9/08
Rising Earth
The crew of Apollo 8 capture …
5/6/09
Description The crew of Apollo 8 captured this view of Earth about five degrees above the lunar horizon on Dec. 22, 1968. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/6/09
STS-127 Crew Back on Earth
The STS-127 crew pause on th …
8/3/09
Description The STS-127 crew pause on the runway next to space shuttle Endeavour after their landing that completed the 16-day, 6.5-million mile journey on the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. This was the 71st landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commander Mark Polansky spoke to spectators and media gathered on the runway, thanking all the workers for their joint efforts that made the mission a success. Behind Polansky are Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy and Tom Marshburn, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Julie Payette and Dave Wolf. Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett July 31, 2009
Date 8/3/09
Arctic Eclipse
NASA's Terra satellite was r …
8/4/08
Description NASA's Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on Aug. 1, 2008. The circular disk of the Moon casts an oval-shaped shadow across the left edge of this image. In the region of totality, where the Moon entirely obscures the Sun, the shadow is complete. The edges of the shadow are fuzzy, gradually lightening from black to red, brown, and yellow until the shadow is no longer discernable. In these areas of semi-shadow, the Sun is only partially blocked. On any other day, the photo-like view captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite would be brilliant white since both the ever-present Arctic clouds and the ice that caps the northern sea reflect light. In this image, however, it is as if the world is painted in sepia: the low light casts a yellow-brown glow on much of the scene. The image was captured between 9:35 and 9:45 UTC. In the area shown in the image, the Sun was completely obscured for about two minutes. As Earth rotated, the shadow moved southeast across the surface. At the same time, the satellite crossed the Arctic, its path nearly perpendicular to the eclipse. Because the shadow was moving across Earth's surface as the satellite approached, it has a long oblong shape in this image. In an instantaneous snapshot from a platform that was not moving relative to Earth, the shadow would be more circular. Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, NASA's MODIS Rapid Response Team Text credit: Holli Riebeek, NASA's Earth Observatory
Date 8/4/08
Piecing Together the Tempera …
In the last decade, the Eart …
02/24/2010
Description In the last decade, the Earth's temperature rose roughly a third of a degree fahrenheit. Since 1880, it's risen about one and a half degrees. You might say the Earth's running a fever. And scientists predict it's going to get much worse. Already, we can tally the signs. Global sea level rose by over an inch during the decade, almost twice as fast as the average during the twentieth century. Arctic summer sea ice declined by over 300,000 square miles – enough ice to cover the states of Texas and Kentucky. The vast majority of climate scientists say evidence for human-caused warming is clear. But less understood is exactly how this warming will change the complex interactions between our planet's land, water, sky, and the living the organisms that inhabit our world.
Date 02/24/2010
Kepler Leaves Astrotech
NASA's Kepler spacecraft, en …
2/20/09
Description NASA's Kepler spacecraft, enclosed in a canister and protective cover, leaves the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. Kepler is being moved to Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.The liftoff of Kepler aboard a Delta II rocket is currently targeted for 10:48 p.m. EST March 5 from Pad 17-B. Kepler is designed to survey more than 100,000 stars in our galaxy to determine the number of sun-like stars that have Earth-size and larger planets, including those that lie in a star's "habitable zone," a region where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist. If these Earth-size worlds do exist around stars like our sun, Kepler is expected to be the first to find them and the first to measure how common they are. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller. Feb. 19, 2009
Date 2/20/09
Total Eclipse of the Sun
On December 3, 2002, people …
6/9/08
Description On December 3, 2002, people in Australia received a rare 32-second celestial show as the moon completely obscured the sun, creating a ring of light. Solar eclipses provide experts an opportunity to study the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona. This total eclipse was the first to cover Australian shores since 1976. The next is not predicted to occur for several more decades. While people in Australia were observing the solar eclipse, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft also had its eye on the sun. From its unique vantage point in space, scientists have been able to monitor the explosions on the sun that can impact us here on Earth. This image combines a photograph of the solar eclipse (showing the halo-like corona) with data taken by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope instrument aboard SOHO (showing the green inner regions). Image credit: NASA/ESA Text credit: NASA's Earth Observatory
Date 6/9/08
The Rare Venus Transit
NASA joined the world June 8 …
6/9/08
Description NASA joined the world June 8, 2004, in viewing a rare celestial event, one not seen by any person now alive. The "Venus transit" -- the apparent crossing of our planetary neighbor in front of the sun -- was captured from the unique perspective of NASA's sun-observing TRACE spacecraft. The top image shows Venus on the eastern limb of the sun. The faint ring around the planet comes from the scattering of its atmosphere, which allows some sunlight to show around the edge of the otherwise dark planetary disk. The faint glow on the disk is an effect of the TRACE telescope. The bottom left image is in the ultraviolet, and the bottom right image is in the extreme ultraviolet. The last "Venus transit" occurred more than a century ago, in 1882, and was used to compute the distance between Earth and the sun. Scientists with NASA's Kepler mission hope to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars by searching for transits similar to this one. If people missed the June 8, 2004, Venus transit, they will have another chance in 2012 on June 6. After that, there will not be another Venus transit until Dec. 11, 2117. Image credit: NASA/LMSAL > View QuickTime movies in ultraviolet: 4.2 Mb | 1.4 Mb
Date 6/9/08
Liftoff!
A Delta II rocket climbs int …
2/6/09
Description A Delta II rocket climbs into the dark, pre-dawn sky at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket successfully propelled the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft toward its polar orbit around Earth. Image credit: Carleton Bailie/United Launch Alliance Feb. 6, 2009
Date 2/6/09
Saturn IVB
An expended Saturn IVB stage …
5/5/09
Description An expended Saturn IVB stage was being used as a target for simulated docking maneuvers over Sonora, Mexico, during Apollo 7's second revolution around Earth on Oct. 11, 1968. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/5/09
Morning Sun
The morning sun reflects on …
5/6/09
Description The morning sun reflects on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 134th revolution of the Earth on Oct. 20, 1968. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/6/09
David Scott
The docked Apollo 9 command …
5/6/09
Description The docked Apollo 9 command and service modules and lunar module conduct the first docking maneuvers in space. This image was taken on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission by lunar module pilot Russell L. Schweickart of David Scott, command module pilot, in the open hatch of the command module. Image Credit: NASA
Date 5/6/09
Eclipse View from the ISS
The International Space Stat …
6/9/08
Description The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the moon as it moved between Earth and the sun during a solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: NASA
Date 6/9/08
GOES-10 Captures Solar Eclip …
The GOES-10 satellite captur …
6/9/08
Description The GOES-10 satellite captured this image sequence on Feb. 26, 1998, during a solar eclipse. The images show the path of the moon's shadow across the surface of the Earth. "GOES" stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. > View image sequence as an animated GIF Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, using data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration GOES
Date 6/9/08
Making News
At NASA's Kennedy Space Cent …
8/3/09
Description At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-127 crew members take part in a news conference following their return to Earth on space shuttle Endeavour after the 16-day mission to the International Space Station. From left are Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette, Tom Marshburn and Dave Wolf, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, who spent four months on the space station and returned on Endeavour. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett July 31, 2009
Date 8/3/09
Constellation Mini Feature 1
Constellation in Low Earth O …
Description Constellation in Low Earth Orbit
ISS 10th Anniversary 1: Cred …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 2: Main …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 3: Main …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 4: Main …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 5: Expe …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 6: Expe …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 7: STS- …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 8: STS- …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 9: STS- …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 10: STS …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 11: STS …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
ISS 10th Anniversary 12: Apo …
The launch of Zarya on Nov. …
2009
Description The launch of Zarya on Nov. 20, 1998, marked the beginning of an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication. On Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date. The full set is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/IssAnniversary
Date 2009
Martian Moons Transit the Su …
The upper-left of these imag …
6/9/08
Description The upper-left of these images shows the passing, or transit, of the Martian moon Deimos across the sun. This event is similar to solar eclipses seen from Earth in which our moon crosses in front of the sun. The bottom three images show Phobos, Mars's other moon, transiting the sun. The potato-shaped Phobos is roughly 15 miles across, about twice the size of Deimos. Deimos appears so much smaller because it is also a bit more than twice as far away from Mars as Phobos is. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took images of both moons on different days in March 2004. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Date 6/9/08
Aug. 1 Solar Eclipse Image S …
On August 1, a total solar e …
8/4/08
Description On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that began in Canada's northern province of Nunavut and ended in northern China's Silk Road region. Though the eclipse was not visible in most of North America, NASA TV and the Exploratorium made streaming video of the event available online. These images are taken from that video. The sun appears differently in some of the images because of the different filters used to capture the event. Times listed are approximate. At 6:54 a.m. ET, clouds began to roll in, threatening to block out the total eclipse. The clouds began to break at 7:06 a.m., and the sky cleared long enough for views of totality at 7:10 a.m. > Larger, unlabeled image Credit: NASA TV/The Exploratorium
Date 8/4/08
NOAA-N Prime
NOAA-N Prime is the last in …
1/7/09
Description NOAA-N Prime is the last in the TIROS series of NOAA satellites that observe Earth's weather and the environment.
Date 1/7/09
Ares 3 Year Progress Video
NASA's Ares Projects began w …
12/17/2008
Description NASA's Ares Projects began work in 2005 towards building a new human-rated launch system to take astronauts beyond Earth orbit for the first time in more than three decades. Since its inception, the Ares team have made tremendous stride towards the first flight of the Ares vehicles. This video documents the progress made on all aspects of the Ares I crew launch vehicle, as well as towards the Ares I-X test flight scheduled for 2009 and the Ares V cargo launch vehicle, which will begin its flights late next decade. For a closed-captioned version of the video, please visit us on the Web at http://www.nasa.gov/ares.
Date 12/17/2008
APOLLO 07 and 08 16MM ONBOAR …
Film taken includes Earth vi …
Description Film taken includes Earth views and nice views of the Saturn 1B launch vehicle S-4B stage after separation from the Command and Service Module (CSM) and during station keeping. Also includes Walter Cunningham donning his pressure suit, an Earth limb sunset view, and Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Cunningham in the Command and Service Module (CSM). From Apollo 08, includes various full Earth views, views of lunar surface taken during lunar orbit, and Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders inside Command Module (CM).
Studying Auroras
NASA's THEMIS mission launch …
Description NASA's THEMIS mission launches on Feb. 15 to study the fiery skies over the Earth's northern and southern polar regions.
First Picture of the Earth a …
The picture of the Earth and …
8/1/08
Description The picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.
Date 8/1/08
Mars on Earth II
In this second installment o …
6/15/04
APOLLO 10 16MM ONBOARD FILM …
Film taken includes various …
Description Film taken includes various scenes of Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young working in the Command Module, lunar orbit views, Earth-rise, and reentry.
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