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Flying Steady: Mission Control Tunes Up Aqua’s Orbit
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Flying Steady: Mission Control Tunes Up Aqua’s Orbit

This pair of images includes a computer drawing of NASA’ Aqua satellite and the global picture of Earth one Aqua’s onboard sensors captured on March 16, 2009.

Published Aug 20, 2009

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An EPIC New View of Earth
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An EPIC New View of Earth

From one million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth.

Published Jul 21, 2015

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EO-1 Launches!
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EO-1 Launches!

Published Nov 27, 2000

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Remembering UARS
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Remembering UARS

Twenty years ago this month, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery used the spacecraft's robotic arm to launch the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite into orbit around the Earth.

Published Sep 24, 2011

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Up, Up, and Away for DSCOVR
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Up, Up, and Away for DSCOVR

After arriving in its final orbit, DSCOVR will monitor the solar wind and send back epic views of Earth’s full sunlit disk.

Published Feb 13, 2015

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100,000 Earth Photographs from the International Space Station
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100,000 Earth Photographs from the International Space Station

This image of the El Paso-Juárez area on the U.S.-Mexico border is the 100,000th photograph of Earth that astronauts have taken from the International Space Station. It was taken on January 26, 2004, by Expedition 8 crewmembers. The Rio Grande can be seen meandering through the area, forming the boundary between the sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Chihuahua. North is to the right in this image, and the setting sun has cast the east side of the Sierra Juárez and Franklin Mountains into shadow.

Published Feb 9, 2004

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All of You on the Good Earth
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All of You on the Good Earth

These iconic photos are not new, but their message never gets old.

Published Dec 24, 2018

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NASA’s Earth Science Satellite Fleet
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NASA’s Earth Science Satellite Fleet

Sixteen operating satellites monitor Earth. Four more are scheduled to launch in 2014.

Published Jul 5, 2013

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A View of Earth from Saturn
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A View of Earth from Saturn

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

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A Cubic View of Earth
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A Cubic View of Earth

The MarCO-B CubeSat snapped its first photo on May 9, 2018, and caught a glance of home.

Published May 28, 2018

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Views of a Distant Earth
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Views of a Distant Earth

On July 19, 2013, NASA spacecraft got not one but two rare and unique views of Earth from opposite ends of the solar system.

Published Jul 24, 2013

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Thinning Upper Atmosphere
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Thinning Upper Atmosphere

From a vantage point about 360 km (225 miles) over the Earth, Space Station crewmembers photographed the crescent moon through the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. At the bottom of the image, a closed deck of clouds is probably at about 6 km (3 miles). The shades of blue grading to black are caused by the scatter of light as it strikes gas molecules of the very low density upper atmosphere.

Published Feb 23, 2004

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GOES-S Heads for Geostationary Orbit
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GOES-S Heads for Geostationary Orbit

A satellite in a geostationary orbit is in a “sweet spot” in which it orbits at the same speed that Earth rotates.

Published Mar 4, 2018

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Landsat 7 Launch
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Landsat 7 Launch

Landsat 7, NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, launched without a hitch on April 15, 1999, at 2:32 p.m. EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Published Apr 19, 1999

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No Longer Just for Astronauts
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No Longer Just for Astronauts

When the DSCOVR mission was conceived in the late 1990s, one of the central ideas was to provide daily, natural-color views of the entire Earth so that everyday citizens could see it. Seventeen years later, we have that view.

Published Oct 23, 2015

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GOES-P Satellite Launches
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GOES-P Satellite Launches

This photo shows the GOES-P satellite launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 4, 2010.

Published Mar 6, 2010

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