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Earth’s Magnetosphere
Published April 23, 2011
Earth is a great magnet, and scientists have spent a century exploring its shape and structure. This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or magnetosphere.
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Earth and Moon from Mercury
Published September 9, 2010
Looking back from its orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER captured this view of Earth and the Moon on May 6, 2010.
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Apollo 11 Landing Site
Published July 20, 2009
Forty years after the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the descent stage of the Eagle lunar module.
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View of Earth from MESSENGER
Published May 8, 2009
This image of Earth was captured by the MESSENGER spacecraft during a flyby of our home planet on August 2, 2005. Parts of South and North America were in view.
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Earthrise 1966
Published November 15, 2008
Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, lunar orbiters were sending back pictures of home.
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A View of Earth from Saturn
Published January 16, 2007
Seen from a billion kilometers away, through the ice and dust particles of Saturn’s rings, Earth appears as a tiny, bright dot.
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Earth from the Moon: A Different Perspective on the Harvest Moon
Published October 4, 2004
Over the stark, scarred surface of the moon, the Earth floats in the void of space, a watery jewel swathed in ribbons of clouds.
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Earth and Moon as Viewed from Mars
Published May 23, 2003
This is one of the first images of Earth taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk.
Apollo 17 Anniversary
Published December 7, 2002
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission and the famous “Blue Marble” full Earth image, Goddard Space Flight Center’s Visualization and Analysis Lab has rendered a new visualization inspired by the mission.
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The Blue Marble from Apollo 17
Published January 31, 2001
View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the Antarctica south polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible to photograph the south polar ice cap.
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Earth from Space
Published October 17, 2000
This true-color image shows North and South America as they would appear from 35,000 km (22,000 miles) above the Earth.
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