Timeline of first images of Earth from space

Photography and other imagery of planet Earth from outer space{{efn|Within the context of this timeline, outer space is considered as starting at the Kármán line, {{convert|100|km|abbr=off}} above mean sea level (AMSL).}} started in the 1940s, first from rockets in suborbital flight, subsequently from satellites around Earth, and then from spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit.

Timeline

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Image ! Date ! Craft or mission ! Event
200px 200px \| October 24, 1946 \| rowspan="3" \|V-2 \| First images of Earth from outer space,{{Cite web\|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/\|title=First Photo From Space\|date=October 24, 2006\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129004546/https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/\|archive-date=January 29, 2021\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/the-first-image-of-earth-taken-from-space-its-not-what-you-think/260755/\|title=The First Image of Earth Taken From Space (It's Not What You Think)\|website=The Atlantic \|date=August 6, 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808225921/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/the-first-image-of-earth-taken-from-space-its-not-what-you-think/260755/\|archive-date=August 8, 2020\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27036-first-photo-of-earth-from-space-was-from-deadly-rocket/\|title=First photo of Earth from space was from deadly rocket\|date=February 26, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108190008/https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27036-first-photo-of-earth-from-space-was-from-deadly-rocket/\|archive-date=November 8, 2020\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.geoawesomeness.com/70-years-ago-first-image-earth-taken-space/\|title=70 years ago the first image of Earth was taken from space\|date=October 26, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029071002/https://www.geoawesomeness.com/70-years-ago-first-image-earth-taken-space/\|archive-date=October 29, 2016\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a23518/first-photo-of-earth-from-space-70-years/\|title=The First Photo of Earth From Space Was Taken 70 Years Ago Today\|date=October 24, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027194050/http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a23518/first-photo-of-earth-from-space-70-years/\|archive-date=October 27, 2016\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/08/22/viewing-the-earth-from-space-celebrates-70-years/#625ddad452ab\|title=Viewing The Earth From Space Celebrates 70 Years\|website=Forbes \|date=August 22, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823175253/https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/08/22/viewing-the-earth-from-space-celebrates-70-years/\|archive-date=August 23, 2016\|url-status=live}}{{cite web\|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/space-photos-nasa-oldest-images-earth-2607225\|title=Space Photos Before NASA: The Oldest Images Of Earth\|website=International Business Times \|date=October 28, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028161726/https://www.ibtimes.com/space-photos-nasa-oldest-images-earth-2607225\|archive-date=October 28, 2017\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-first-photograph-of-earth-taken-from-space/\|title=The first photograph of Earth taken from space\|date=October 24, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617073724/https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/the-first-photograph-of-earth-taken-from-space/\|archive-date=June 17, 2018\|url-status=live}} flight monitoring continuous imaging, resulting in a time-lapse-movie reel. Not published as Earth observation images until 1950.{{cite web \| title=T. A. Bergstrahl Publishes the First Book of Photographs of the Earth Taken From Space : History of Information \| website=History of Information \| date=2020-11-19 \| url=https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4722 \| access-date=2023-03-12 \| archive-date=March 12, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312215637/https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4722 \| url-status=live }} Taken by the V-2 No. 13 suborbital spaceflight, the eighth successful US spaceflight and one of the first over-all.
200px \| March 7, 1947 \| First dedicated and first published Earth observation images from outer space, first published on March 25, 1947.{{cite web \| title=The first photograph from 100 miles out in space, March 7, 1947, Camera on V2 rocket \| website=Christies.com \| date=1947-03-07 \| url=https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/voyage-another-world-victor-martin-malburet-photograph-collection/first-photograph-100-miles-out-space-march-7-1947-2/104999 \| access-date=2023-03-12 \| archive-date=March 12, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312212938/https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/voyage-another-world-victor-martin-malburet-photograph-collection/first-photograph-100-miles-out-space-march-7-1947-2/104999 \| url-status=live }}{{cite web \| title=NASA Electronics Pioneer Dies at 85 \| website=NASA \| date=2003-11-04 \| url=https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/john_mengel_pioneer_prt.htm \| access-date=2023-03-12 \| archive-date=March 12, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312214517/https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/john_mengel_pioneer_prt.htm \| url-status=dead }}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1298.html\|title=First Pictures of Earth From 100 Miles in Space, 1947\|date=March 6, 2009\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307095104/https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1298.html\|archive-date=March 7, 2009\|url-status=live}}
200px \| July 26, 1948 \| First prepared wide-angle panorama of Earth from outer space (the 1946 flight did already record a panorama swing).{{citation needed\|date=March 2023}}
200px \|October 5, 1954 \|Aerobee AJ10-24 RTV-N-10b \|The first color image from space as part in the left corner of this first color photomosaic of Earth from space,{{cite web \| last=Theoret \| first=Jeremy \| title=First Color Photo of Earth From Space – The Berg Film I \| website=Apollospace \| date=2023-02-06 \| url=https://apollospace.com/first-color-photo-of-earth-berg-film-i/ \| access-date=2023-03-12 \| archive-date=March 12, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312192712/https://apollospace.com/first-color-photo-of-earth-berg-film-i/ \| url-status=live }} composed of 117 images taken from an altitude of {{convert\|100\|mi}}.{{Cite web \|title=Photo-Mosaic, Aerobee {{!}} National Air and Space Museum \|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/photo-mosaic-aerobee/nasm_A19620042000 \|access-date=2023-01-07 \|website=airandspace.si.edu \|language=en \|archive-date=January 7, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107011652/https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/photo-mosaic-aerobee/nasm_A19620042000 \|url-status=live }}{{Cite web \|title=541005-N-NO204-0001 \|url=https://www.nrl.navy.mil/News-Media/Images/igphoto/2002941071/ \|access-date=2023-01-07 \|website=www.nrl.navy.mil \|language=en-US \|archive-date=January 7, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107005337/https://www.nrl.navy.mil/News-Media/Images/igphoto/2002941071/ \|url-status=live }}
{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}} \| February–March 1959 \| Vanguard 2 \| First attempt of a scanner, in which a single photocell mounted at the focus of telescope would scan Earth due to the satellite movement; resulting images were poor.{{Cite web\|url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2019/04/23/vanguard-ii-turns-60/\|title=Vanguard II Turns 60\|date=April 23, 2019\|access-date=March 27, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318190307/https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2019/04/23/vanguard-ii-turns-60/\|archive-date=March 18, 2021\|url-status=live}}
200px \| August 14, 1959 \| Explorer 6 \| First image of Earth from orbit, showing a sunlit area of the Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover.{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49251998\|title=Explorer 6: 60 years since first Earth photo from space\|date=August 7, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808002837/https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49251998\|archive-date=August 8, 2019\|url-status=live}}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/60-years-ago-first-satellite-image-of-earth\|title=60 years ago first satellite image of Earth\|date=September 7, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907052241/https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/60-years-ago-first-satellite-image-of-earth\|archive-date=September 7, 2020\|url-status=live}}{{cite web\|url=https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/history-of-earth-photographed-from-space-pale-blue-dot\|title=60 Years Ago We Saw Earth From Space for the First Time — Here's How We See It Now\|date=August 22, 2019\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823013229/https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/history-of-earth-photographed-from-space-pale-blue-dot\|archive-date=August 23, 2019\|url-status=live}}{{cite web \| last=Mars \| first=Kelli \| title=90 Years of Our Changing Views of Earth \| website=NASA \| date=2020-12-17 \| url=http://www.nasa.gov/feature/90-years-of-our-changing-views-of-earth \| access-date=2021-05-21 \| archive-date=March 10, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310012637/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/90-years-of-our-changing-views-of-earth/ \| url-status=live }}
{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}} \| 1959 \| Explorer 7 \| The first "coarse maps of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth and the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth", from a mission launched on October 13, 1959.{{cite book\|last1=Kidder\|first1=S.Q.\|last2=Vonder Haar\|first2=T.H.\|title=Satellite Meteorology: An Introduction\|publisher=Elsevier Science\|year=1995\|isbn=978-0-08-057200-0\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M5dsBgAAQBAJ\|access-date=October 5, 2020\|page=2\|archive-date=March 15, 2024\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315192409/https://books.google.com/books?id=M5dsBgAAQBAJ\|url-status=live}}
200px \| 1960 \| TIROS-1 \| First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite picture.{{cite journal\|last=Anderson\|first=George D.\|date=April 1, 2010\|title=The first weather satellite picture \|journal=Weather\|volume=65\|issue=4\|page=87\|doi=10.1002/wea.550\|issn=1477-8696\|bibcode=2010Wthr...65...87A\|doi-access=}}
200px \|August 18, 1960 \| CORONA \| "First space-based Earth observation system"; its first successful mission was Discoverer 14 on 19 August 1960 with the recovery of photographic film from an orbiting satellite.{{cite web\|url=https://nae.edu/8889/page2005DraperPrize-CoronaHistoricImages12150\|title=2005 Draper Prize – Corona Historic Images\|website=NAE Website\|access-date=October 12, 2020\|archive-date=February 22, 2022\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222235144/https://www.nae.edu/8889/page2005DraperPrize-CoronaHistoricImages12150\|url-status=live}}{{cite web\|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1960-010A\|title=Discoverer 14 – NSSDC ID: 1960-010A\|publisher=NASA\|access-date=October 5, 2020\|archive-date=June 11, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611140507/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1960-010A\|url-status=live}}
{{external media \| float = left \| width = 200px \| image1 = [http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/Titov-photo.jpg] }}{{Image requested inline \|date=February 2022}} \| August 6, 1961 \| Vostok 2 \| First image, color images and movie of Earth from space taken by a person, by cosmonaut Gherman Titov – the first photographer from space.{{cite web \| last=Reichhardt \| first=Tony \| title=The First Photographer in Space \| website=Air & Space Magazine \| date=2011-08-05 \| url=https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/the-first-photographer-in-space-44654847/ \| access-date=2021-05-19 \| archive-date=May 12, 2021 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512145151/https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/the-first-photographer-in-space-44654847/ \| url-status=live }}{{cite web \| title=Vostok-2 mission \| website=RussianSpaceWeb.com \| date=1961-08-06 \| url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok2.html \| access-date=2021-10-21 \| archive-date=June 15, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615113921/http://www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok2.html \| url-status=live }}
Dmiddeclass2senegalafrica \|1963 \|KH-7 Gambit \|First high-resolution (sub-meter spatial resolution) satellite photography (classified).{{Cite web\|url=https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-declassified-data-declassified-satellite-imagery-2?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects\|title=USGS EROS Archive – Declassified Data – Declassified Satellite Imagery – 2\|date=July 13, 2018 \|access-date=March 18, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229201223/https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-declassified-data-declassified-satellite-imagery-2?qt-science_center_objects=0\|archive-date=February 29, 2020\|url-status=live}}
200px \|1964 \|Quill \|First radar images of Earth from space, using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR).{{Cite web \|url=https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/QUILL/30.%20QUILL-The%20First%20Imaging%20Radar%20Satellite.pdf \|title=Robert L. Butterworth "Quill: The First Imaging Radar Satellite" \|access-date=February 11, 2021 \|archive-date=May 24, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524005849/https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/foia/declass/QUILL/30.%20QUILL-The%20First%20Imaging%20Radar%20Satellite.pdf \|url-status=live }} This shows part of Richmond, Virginia.
200px \| March 18, 1965 \| Voskhod 2 \|First image and movie of Earth with a human (Alexei Leonov) floating in space (the first ever EVA).{{cite web \| author=All About Space magazine \| title=Heroes of Space: Alexei Leonov \| website=Space.com \| date=2019-10-18 \| url=https://www.space.com/alexei-leonov-heroes-of-space.html \| access-date=2023-10-04 \| archive-date=October 3, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003071928/https://www.space.com/alexei-leonov-heroes-of-space.html \| url-status=live }}
{{external media \| float = left \| width = 200px \| image1 = [https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/108744bd68ec410c50cc21b32f40ed95503e8174/0_0_5520_3313/master/5520.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=3502b1f27e3e73d6930c8c9afd1a05a3]}}{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}}\| \| March 18, 1965 \| Voskhod 2 \| First drawing of Earth from space and art made in space (by Leonov, the first artist in space).{{cite web \| last=Brown \| first=Mark \| title=First picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in London \| website=the Guardian \| date=2015-08-31 \| url=http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov \| access-date=2021-06-09 \| archive-date=March 13, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313222913/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/31/first-picture-space-cosmonauts-science-museum-alexei-leonov \| url-status=live }}
{{external media \| float = left \| width = 200px \| image1 = [https://web.archive.org/web/20211230105242/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/earth_from_molniya_1_may_30_1966_reddit.jpg?itok=XrClNmUo] }}{{Image requested inline \|date=February 2022}} \|May 30, 1966 \|Molniya 1-3 \|First full-disk pictures of the Earth, published in Review of Popular Astronomy July–August.{{cite news \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/spaceship-earth-the-first-photos/2012/01/03/gIQAzXF5XP_blog.html \|title=Spaceship Earth: The first photos \|author=Joel Achenbach \|newspaper=The Washington Post \|date=January 3, 2012 \|access-date=June 16, 2020 \|archive-date=June 16, 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616054750/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/spaceship-earth-the-first-photos/2012/01/03/gIQAzXF5XP_blog.html \|url-status=live }}
200px \|August 23, 1966 \|Lunar Orbiter 1 \|First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space.{{cite web \|last=Stein \|first=Ben P. \|title=45 Years Ago: How the 1st Photo of Earth From the Moon Happened \|website=Space.com \|date=August 23, 2011 \|url=https://www.space.com/12707-earth-photo-moon-nasa-lunar-orbiter-1-anniversary.html \|access-date=October 7, 2020 \|archive-date=July 9, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709124723/https://www.space.com/12707-earth-photo-moon-nasa-lunar-orbiter-1-anniversary.html \|url-status=live }}{{Cite web\|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fifty-years-ago-this-photo-captured-first-view-of-earth-from-the-moon-180960222/\|title=Fifty Years Ago, This Photo Captured the First View of Earth From the Moon\|date=August 23, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825094218/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fifty-years-ago-this-photo-captured-first-view-of-earth-from-the-moon-180960222/\|archive-date=August 25, 2016\|url-status=live}} The image (frame 1102; image 102 of Lunar Orbiter 1) consists of three parts h1-h3.{{cite web \| title=The Moon \| website=Lunar Orbiter 1 \| date=1966-08-23 \| url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/lo1_h102_123.html \| access-date=2025-03-04}} Since its original publication its raw analog data has been used to digitally produce the image (incl. its wide angle version) in higher resolution (see) and clarity (see).{{cite web \| title=Scanning and Image Processing \| website=Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) \| url=https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/processing/ \| access-date=2025-03-04}}
200px \| rowspan="2" \|December 11, 1966 \| rowspan="3" \|ATS-1 \|First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit.
200px \|First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit.{{cite web \|title=The 50th Anniversary of ATS-1 \|website=NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) \|date=6 December 2016 \|url=https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/50th-anniversary-ats-1 \|access-date=5 October 2020 \|archive-date=September 2, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902120602/https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/50th-anniversary-ats-1 \|url-status=live }}
{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}} \|January 1967 \|First movie of Earth from space made without a human camera operator (contrast to Titov's 1961 movie)
200px \|April 24, 1967{{cite web \| title=Lunar Surveyor III Press Images \| website=Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) \| date=Apr 19, 1967 \| url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/Surveyor/press_releases/surveyor_III/ \| access-date=Mar 12, 2023 \| archive-date=March 13, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313000618/https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/Surveyor/press_releases/surveyor_III/ \| url-status=live }} \| rowspan="2" \|Surveyor 3 \|First images and view of a sunset and sunrise over Earth at the same time, a solar eclipse by Earth (a celestial body other than the Moon), from the Moon's surface.{{cite web \| title=APOD: 2014 April 7 - A Solar Eclipse from the Moon \| website=Astronomy Picture of the Day \| url=http://sprite.phys.ncku.edu.tw/astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/ap140407.html \| access-date=Mar 12, 2023 \| archive-date=January 27, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127103515/http://sprite.phys.ncku.edu.tw/astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/ap140407.html \| url-status=live }}{{cite web \| title=section2b \| website=NASA \| date=1966-11-28 \| url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-168/section2b.htm#128 \| access-date=2023-03-13 \| archive-date=March 13, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313001022/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-168/section2b.htm#128 \| url-status=live }}
200px \|April 30, 1967 \|First color image of Earth from the surface of another astronomical object, from the Moon's surface.{{Cite web \|url=https://www.planetary.org/space-images/first-image-of-earth-from-surveyor-3 \|title=First image of Earth from the surface of the Moon: Surveyor 3 \|website=The Planetary Society\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924074708/https://www.planetary.org/space-images/first-image-of-earth-from-surveyor-3\|archive-date=September 24, 2020\|url-status=live}}
200px \|September 20, 1967 (released November 10th) \|DODGE \|First full-disk black-and-white filtered{{cite web \| title=The First Color Images of the Earth from Space \| website=Geography Realm \| date=Mar 13, 2019 \| url=https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-first-color-images-of-the-earth-from-space/ \| access-date=Feb 2, 2022 \| archive-date=February 3, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203041549/https://www.geographyrealm.com/the-first-color-images-of-the-earth-from-space/ \| url-status=live }} color picture of the Earth.
200px \|November 10, 1967 \|ATS-3 \| First full-disk "true color"{{cite journal \| last1=Miller \| first1=Steven D. \| last2=Schmit \| first2=Timothy L. \| last3=Seaman \| first3=Curtis J. \| last4=Lindsey \| first4=Daniel T. \| last5=Gunshor \| first5=Mathew M. \| last6=Kohrs \| first6=Richard A. \| last7=Sumida \| first7=Yasuhiko \| last8=Hillger \| first8=Donald \| title=A Sight for Sore Eyes: The Return of True Color to Geostationary Satellites \| journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society \| publisher=American Meteorological Society \| volume=97 \| issue=10 \| date=Oct 1, 2016 \| issn=0003-0007 \| doi=10.1175/bams-d-15-00154.1 \| pages=1803–1816\| bibcode=2016BAMS...97.1803M \| doi-access=free }} picture of the Earth; subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-history/spaceflight-heritage-ats-3-relays-first-color-images-earth/\|title=Our SpaceFlight Heritage: ATS-3 relays first color images of Earth\|date=November 10, 2014\|access-date=March 27, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111234403/https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-history/spaceflight-heritage-ats-3-relays-first-color-images-earth/\|archive-date=November 11, 2020\|url-status=live}}{{Cite tweet \|user=SciHistoryOrg \|number=1253714678275993603 \|title=Science History Institute on Twitter\|data=24 de abril de 2020}}
{{external media \| float = left \| width = 200px \| image1 = [https://epizodyspace.ru/e2/foto-e2/z-5/z5sn.jpg 13 X 18 cm image] \|caption=}} \|September 14, 1968 \|Zond-5 \|Black-and-white image of a half-disk of the Earth with Africa and Arabian Peninsula clearly visible.{{cite web \|last1=Zak \|first1=Anatoly \|title=Zond 5 \|url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/zond5.html \|access-date=9 March 2019 \|publisher=Russian Space Web}}{{cite web \|title=Earth-Cloud Photography \|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=1968-076A-02 \|access-date=28 February 2019 \|publisher=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive}} The images were taken approximately 90 000km away from Earth. They were taken on the film camera with 400mm focal length.
200px \|December 21, 1968 (December solstice) \| rowspan="3" \|Apollo 8 \|First full-disk image of Earth from space taken by a person (astronaut William Anders){{cite web \|url=https://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/03day1_green_sep.htm \|title=Day 1: The Green Team and Separation \|last1=Woods \|first1=W. David \|last2=O'Brien \|first2=Frank \|year=2006 \|work=Apollo 8 Flight Journal \|publisher=NASA \|access-date=October 29, 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923012425/http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/03day1_green_sep.htm \|archive-date=September 23, 2008}} TIMETAG 003:42:55.
200px \| rowspan="2" \|December 24, 1968 \|The first photograph of Earth taken by a person (William Anders){{cite magazine \|last=Chaikin \|first=Andrew \|date=January–February 2018 \|title=Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? \|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-took-legendary-earthrise-photo-apollo-8-180967505/ \|magazine=Smithsonian \|access-date=July 27, 2018 \|archive-date=July 28, 2018 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728035707/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-took-legendary-earthrise-photo-apollo-8-180967505/ \|url-status=live }} from another astronomical object (the Moon).{{Cite book \|last=Poole \|first=Robert \|title=Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth \|year=2008 \|publisher=Yale University Press \|location=New Haven, Connecticut, USA \|isbn=978-0-300-13766-8}}{{cite web \| title=Day 4: Lunar Orbit 4 \| website=NASA \| date=2021-03-12 \| url=https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap08fj/16day4_orbit4.html \| access-date=2025-03-05}} For a colorized version see this image.
200px \|The Earthrise image is the first color image of Earth by a person (William Anders) from the moon, moments after his black-and-white photograph.
200px \| rowspan="2" \|July 21, 1969 \| rowspan="2" \|Apollo 11 \| The much reproduced full frame image AS11-40-5903 of Buzz Aldrin, happens to be the first indirect image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), having by accident in his visor a reflection of Earth.{{cite web \| last=Byrne. \| first=Dave \| title=Apollo 11 Image Library \| website=hq.nasa.gov \| date=2019-07-08 \| url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Mag37 \| access-date=2021-06-10 \| archive-date=February 24, 2020 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224163200/https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html#Mag37 \| url-status=live }}
200px \|First direct image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), (AS11-40-5923).{{cite web \| title=March to the Moon \| website=March to the Moon \| url=http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/11/Hasselblad%20500EL%20Data%20Camera%2070%20mm#AS11-40-5923 \| access-date=5 February 2022 \| archive-date=July 21, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721071120/http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/11/Hasselblad%20500EL%20Data%20Camera%2070%20mm#AS11-40-5923 \| url-status=live }}
200px \| November 24, 1969 \|Apollo 12 \| First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth.{{cite web \| title=Solar eclipses caused by Earth - Today's Image \| website=EarthSky {{!}} Updates on your cosmos and world \| date=2015-04-06 \| url=https://earthsky.org/todays-image/solar-eclipses-caused-by-earth/ \| access-date=2023-03-13 \| archive-date=March 13, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313001023/https://earthsky.org/todays-image/solar-eclipses-caused-by-earth/ \| url-status=live }}{{cite web \| title=Total view: A brief history of solar eclipses seen from space \| website=collectSPACE.com \| date=2017-08-16 \| url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-081617a-total-solar-eclipse-from-space-astronauts.html \| access-date=2022-02-07 \| archive-date=February 12, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212230902/http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-081617a-total-solar-eclipse-from-space-astronauts.html \| url-status=live }}
200px \|December 7, 1972 \|Apollo 17 \|First fully illuminated color image of the Earth by a person (AS17-148-22725).{{cite web \| title=March to the Moon \| website=March to the Moon \| url=http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/17/Hasselblad%20500EL%2070%20mm#AS17-148-22725 \| access-date=5 February 2022 \| archive-date=February 19, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219174241/http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/17/Hasselblad%20500EL%2070%20mm#AS17-148-22725 \| url-status=live }} This photo was taken just before another picture was taken with the same perspective, which cropped and processed became the widely used Blue Marble picture (AS17-148-22727).{{cite web \| title=The Story of the Blue Marble \| website=CleanTechnica \| date=1 January 2022 \| url=https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/01/the-story-of-the-blue-marble/ \| access-date=2 February 2022 \| archive-date=May 21, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220521180638/https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/01/the-story-of-the-blue-marble/ \| url-status=live }}{{cite news \|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ \|title=The Blue Marble Shot: Our First Complete Photograph of Earth \|work=The Atlantic \|last=Reinert \|first=Al \|date=April 12, 2011 \|access-date=August 1, 2018 \|archive-date=September 6, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906040955/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ \|url-status=live }}
200px \|July–September, 1973 \|Skylab 3 \|Early color image of an aurora by a human from space.{{cite web \| title=Lights Below: The Aurora from Space \| website=NASA's Polar, Wind and Geotail Missions \| date=Jul 13, 2000 \| url=https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/afromspace.html \| access-date=Mar 13, 2023 \| archive-date=January 27, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127081503/https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/afromspace.html \| url-status=live }}{{cite web \| last=Carney \| first=Emily \| title=Space in the Seventies: Skylab's Other Astronomy Experiments \| website=National Space Society - Working to Create a Spacefaring Civilization \| date=Oct 4, 2021 \| url=https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-skylabs-other-astronomy-experiments/ \| access-date=Mar 13, 2023 \| archive-date=March 13, 2023 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313004915/https://space.nss.org/space-in-the-seventies-skylabs-other-astronomy-experiments/ \| url-status=live }}
200px \| November, 1973 (components) / 1999 (composition) \|Mariner 10 \|Mariner took the first high resolution digital color images of Earth from heliocentric orbit in interplanetary space at 2.6 million kilometers, as in this mosaic and composite size comparison image of Earth and the Moon produced in 1999 with images from Mariner 10.{{cite web \| title=Catalog Page for PIA02441 \| website=Photojournal \| date=1973-11-03 \| url=https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/Mariner+10?subselect=Target%3AEarth%3AMission%3AMariner \| access-date=2025-04-13}}
{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}} \|1977 \|KH-11 \|First real-time satellite imagery.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.universetoday.com/65458/spying-on-a-hubble-telescope-look-alike/\|title=Spying on a Hubble Telescope Look-Alike\|date=May 29, 2010\|access-date=March 27, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214005800/https://www.universetoday.com/65458/spying-on-a-hubble-telescope-look-alike/\|archive-date=February 14, 2021\|url-status=live}}
200px \|September 18, 1977 \| rowspan="2" \|Voyager 1 \|First full-disk picture and first single frame picture of Earth and the Moon together.
200px \|February 14, 1990 \|The Pale Blue Dot is the first image of Earth from beyond all of the other Solar System planets. It is part of the first picture of the full extent of the planetary system, known as the Family Portrait.{{Cite web\|url=https://earthsky.org/space/earth-images-from-space\|title=Our home world from afar\|date=April 22, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201053838/https://earthsky.org/space/earth-images-from-space\|archive-date=December 1, 2020\|url-status=live}}
200px 200px \|December 11, 1990 \|Galileo \|First interplanetary fly-by image of Earth during the second ever Earth fly-by,{{cite web \| title=20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home \| website=NASA \| date=2024-03-07 \| url=https://www.nasa.gov/history/20-years-ago-first-image-of-earth-from-mars-and-other-postcards-of-home/ \| access-date=2025-04-14}} which is also the first frame of the first movie of a full rotation of Earth.{{cite web \| title=The latest self-portrait in a gallery of Earth photos taken from space \| website=CBC \| date=2021-01-29 \| url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-latest-self-portrait-in-a-gallery-of-earth-photos-taken-from-space-1.5893218 \| access-date=2021-05-21 \| archive-date=May 26, 2022 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526225058/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/the-latest-self-portrait-in-a-gallery-of-earth-photos-taken-from-space-1.5893218 \| url-status=live }}
{{external media \| float = left \| width = 200px \| image1 = [https://web.archive.org/web/20210327171332/https://microsites.maxar.com/ikonos20/ikonos20/img/ca0b133.jpg] }}{{Image requested inline \|date=May 2021}} \|October 13, 1999 \|IKONOS \|First commercial high-resolution (sub-meter) satellite photography (non-classified); it made the cover of the New York Times.{{Cite web\|url=https://microsites.maxar.com/ikonos20/#september-11th-2001\|title=IKONOS 20th Anniversary\|access-date=March 27, 2021\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327171332/https://microsites.maxar.com/ikonos20/\|archive-date=March 27, 2021\|url-status=live}}
200px \|May 8, 2003 13:00 UTC \|Mars Global Surveyor \|First image of Earth (and the Moon) from another planet (in orbit around Mars);{{cite web \| last=Cermak \| first=Alicia \| title=Earth and Moon as viewed from Mars \| website=NASA Science \| date=2003-05-22 \| url=https://science.nasa.gov/resource/earth-and-moon-as-viewed-from-mars/ \| access-date=2025-04-14}} notice South America is visible.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/milestones-space-photography/\|title=Milestones in Space Photography\|website=National Geographic Society \|date=November 11, 2010\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401023314/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/milestones-space-photography/\|archive-date=2020-04-01\|url-status=dead}}
200px \|March 11, 2004 \|Spirit Mars Exploration rover \|First image taken of Earth from the surface of Mars and any celestial body other than the Moon.
200px \|July 27, 2006 \|Cassini-Huygens \|The Pale Blue Orb is the first image of Earth from Saturn.{{cite web \| title=This day in 2013: The Day the Earth Smiled \| website=EarthSky \| date=2020-07-19 \| url=https://earthsky.org/space/the-day-earth-smiled-2013-cassini-image-of-earth-moon-planets \| access-date=2021-05-22 \| archive-date=December 31, 2021 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231221133/https://earthsky.org/space/the-day-earth-smiled-2013-cassini-image-of-earth-moon-planets/ \| url-status=live }}
200px 200px \|August 9, 2021 \|Parker Solar Probe \|Image and video of Earth from within the outer Solar corona, from the second time that any probe has ever reached the corona.{{cite web \|title=Encounter 9 (2021-08-04 - 2021-08-15, with limited additional data 2021-06-20 - 2021-09-10) \|website=wispr.nrl.navy.mil \|url=https://wispr.nrl.navy.mil/encounter9-summary \|access-date=2025-04-14}}
200px \|September 5, 2024 \|Curiosity \|First image of Earth with Phobos (from the surface of Mars).{{cite web \| last=Mathewson \| first=Samantha \| title=Behold! 1st-ever photo of Earth and Mars' moon Phobos captured from Red Planet \| website=Space.com \| date=2024-09-18 \| url=https://www.space.com/mars-curiosity-photo-earth-moon-phobos \| access-date=2025-04-14}}

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