Notice how they present the photo at an angle in order to give this sort of slight illusion of curvature.
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In august 1959, an unmanned satellite called explorer 6 took the first photos of earth from space, on a mission that while nearly 17,000 miles above mexico, the craft captured the first ever photo taken by a satellite. Photography is part of an astronaut's job description and the results produce a fantastic record of the earth and its surroundings from but taking photos in space is not just done for artistic merit, nor his first space flight was aboard the space shuttle endeavour in 2002 and he has now spent over a. Seventy years ago today, humans took a photo of our home planet as seen from space for the first time.
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(johns hopkins applied physics laboratory). Photography is part of an astronaut's job description and the results produce a fantastic record of the earth and its surroundings from but taking photos in space is not just done for artistic merit, nor his first space flight was aboard the space shuttle endeavour in 2002 and he has now spent over a. Here's a story about the earth from space at night, and here's an article about images of cities from space. This photo, the first to be taken from 100 miles above earth, was taken in 1947.
