Fifty years ago today, the first American to orbit the planet took this photo of home.
Published Feb 21, 2012
This image shows Earth and the Moon from six million miles away.
Published Sep 1, 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.
Published Apr 23, 2011
Looking back from its orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER captured this view of Earth and the Moon on May 6, 2010.
Published Sep 9, 2010
From orbit around the Moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of Earth in June 2010.
Published Jul 31, 2010
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.
Published Jul 20, 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.
Published May 8, 2009
This stunning photo came back to Earth with the Apollo 8 astronauts in late December 1968.
Published Nov 27, 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.
Published Nov 15, 2008
From 31 million miles away, how could you tell that there was life on Earth? Scientists used the remote vantage point of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft to shoot a sequence of images that will help to help answer that question.
Published Jul 22, 2008
The spacecraft captured images of parts of Mercury’s surface that planetary scientists had never seen.
Published Jan 22, 2008
Seen from a billion kilometers away, through the ice and dust particles of Saturn’s rings, Earth appears as a tiny, bright dot.
Published Jan 16, 2007
Over the stark, scarred surface of the moon, the Earth floats in the void of space, a watery jewel swathed in ribbons of clouds.
Published Oct 4, 2004
This is one of the first images of Earth taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk.
Published May 23, 2003
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.
Published Dec 7, 2002
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.
Published Jan 31, 2001
This true-color image shows North and South America as they would appear from 35,000 km (22,000 miles) above the Earth.
Published Oct 17, 2000
