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A day late, but this is one of the first images taken of Earth from space. Ever. It was acquired from an altitude of 105 km (five times higher than the previous record) eighty years ago, on 24 October 1946, with a 35 mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

Credit: U.S. Army/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

And this is a photo of Earth taken from space by the GOES-19 satellite about... a half hour before I posted this. Credit: NOAA/CIRA/RAMMB SLIDER

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

And this is an image of Earth from space taken by the Artemis II Crew on the second day of their flight—the first crewed flight to lunar space since 1972. Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

25/10/26, 6:59 pm3 reposts65 likes

facto_tom 😎

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one consistency is clouds will always fuck with any shot you want to take of the sky unless you are looking actually for clouds, then they get shy...gaseous bitches