Early V-2 Photos of Earth V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.
In 1946, a significant milestone in space exploration was achieved when a 35-millimeter motion picture camera captured the first-ever images of Earth from space. On October 24, 1946, the camera ...
Every week, we take a bird's eye view of Earth, and see how it affects the people living on it. Earth from space This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara ...