Before there was a Blue Marble photograph or composite image of Earth, there was TIROS IX.
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Sixteen operating satellites monitor Earth. Four more are scheduled to launch in 2014.
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Several filmmakers have used the desert landscapes of Wadi Rum as a stand-in for the Red Planet.
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The Curiosity rover on Mars looked up and saw home on the horizon.
On July 19, 2013, NASA spacecraft got not one but two rare and unique views of Earth from opposite ends of the solar system.
OSIRIS-REx took a look back at home while making its way toward the asteroid Bennu.
From one million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth.
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Looking back from its orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER captured this view of Earth and the Moon on May 6, 2010.
Satellites detected an eruption from a seamount near Tonga’s largest island.
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts left the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, they brought home samples of solar wind particles, lunar rocks and dirt, and a big helping of perspective.
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