Timeline of first images of Earth from space

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Photography and other imagery of planet Earth from outer space [lower-alpha 1] started in the 1940s, first from rockets in suborbital flight, subsequently from satellites around Earth, and then from spacecraft beyond Earth's orbit.

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Timeline

ImageDateCraft or missionEvent
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October 24, 1946 V-2 First images of Earth from outer space, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] flight monitoring continuous imaging, resulting in a time-lapse-movie reel. Not published as Earth observation images until 1950. [9] Taken by the V-2 No. 13 suborbital spaceflight.
V-2- image from space 1947.jpg March 7, 1947First dedicated and first published Earth observation images from outer space, first published on March 25, 1947. [9] [10] [11] [12]
Space panorama02.jpg July 26, 1948First prepared wide-angle panorama of Earth from outer space (the 1946 flight did already record a panorama swing).[ citation needed ]
First Color Photograph of Earth from Space.jpg October 5, 1954 Aerobee AJ10-24

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The first color image from space as part in the left corner of this first color photomosaic of Earth from space, [13] composed of 117 images taken from an altitude of 100 miles (160 km). [14] [15]
[ image needed ]February–March 1959 Vanguard 2 First attempt of a scanner, in which a single photocell mounted at the focus of telescope would scan Earth due to the satellite movement; resulting images were poor. [16]
First satellite photo - Explorer VI.jpg August 14, 1959 Explorer 6 First image of Earth from orbit, showing a sunlit area of the Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. [17] [18] [19] [20]
[ image needed ]1959 Explorer 7 The first "coarse maps of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth and the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth", from a mission launched on October 13, 1959. [21]
TIROS-1-Earth.png 1960 TIROS-1 First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite picture. [22]
CORONA first image.jpg August 18, 1960 CORONA "First space-based Earth observation system"; [23] its first successful mission was Discoverer 14 on 19 August 1960 with the recovery of photographic film from an orbiting satellite. [23] [24]
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[ image needed ]		August 6, 1961 Vostok 2 First image, color images and movie of Earth from space taken by a person, by cosmonaut Gherman Titov – the first photographer from space. [25] [26]
Dmiddeclass2senegalafrica.jpg 1963 KH-7 Gambit First high-resolution (sub-meter spatial resolution) satellite photography (classified). [27]
Slant-range and "ground-range" forms of 1964 "Quill" satellite radar image of Richmond, VA.JPG 1964 Quill First radar images of Earth from space, using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). [28] This shows part of Richmond, Virginia.
FirstSpaceWalk.png March 18, 1965 Voskhod 2 First image and movie of Earth with a human (Alexei Leonov) floating in space (the first ever EVA). [29]
March 18, 1965 Voskhod 2 First drawing of Earth from space and art made in space (by Leonov, the first artist in space). [30]
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[ image needed ]		May 30, 1966 Molniya 1-3First full-disk pictures of the Earth, published in Review of Popular Astronomy July–August. [31] [20]
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August 23, 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. [32] [33] [34] [7] [19]
ATS-1 Moon.webp December 11, 1966 ATS-1 First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit. [35]
ATS-1 (Earth full disk), 1966.jpg First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit. [35]
[ image needed ]January 1967First movie of Earth from space made without a human camera operator (contrast to Titov's 1961 movie) [35]
Surveyor 3 eclipse April 24th 1967.gif April 24, 1967 [36] Surveyor 3 First images and view of a sunset and sunrise over Earth at the same time, a solar eclipse by Earth (a celestial body other than the Moon), from the Moon's surface. [37] [38]
First-color-photo-of-earth-from-the-moon.png April 30, 1967First color image of Earth from another astronomical object's surface, the Moon's surface. [39]
First color image of the earth from outer space (Dodge Satellite).png September 20, 1967 (released November 10th) [40] DODGE First full-disk black-and-white filtered [40] color picture of the Earth. [6]
ATSIII 10NOV67 153107.jpg November 10, 1967 ATS-3 First full-disk "true color" [41] picture of the Earth; [42] subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog . [43] [42]
AS08-16-2593 remastered.jpg December 21, 1968 Apollo 8 First full-disk image of Earth from space taken by a person, probably by astronaut William Anders. [44]
AS08-13-2329.jpg December 24, 1968The first photograph of Earth taken by a human (Frank Borman) from another astronomical object (the Moon). [45]
NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg The Earthrise image is the first color image of Earth from the Moon by a person (William Anders), [33] [6] [19] moments after Borman's black-and-white photograph.
Aldrin Apollo 11 original.jpg July 21, 1969 Apollo 11 The much reproduced full frame image AS11-40-5903 of Buzz Aldrin, happens to be the first indirect image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), having by accident in his visor a reflection of Earth. [46]
AS11-40-5923 (21669280451).jpg First direct image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), (AS11-40-5923). [20] [47]
Earth Eclipses Sun-ap12-s80-37406.jpg November 24, 1969 Apollo 12 First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth. [48] [49]
AS17-148-22725 (21692959852).jpg December 7, 1972 Apollo 17 First fully illuminated color image of the Earth by a person (AS17-148-22725). [50] This photo was taken just before a second shot with the same perspective was taken, which became cropped and processed the widely used Blue Marble picture (AS17-148-22727). [51] [52]
Sl3-130-3130 large-1080x675.png July–September 1973 Skylab 3 Early color image of an aurora by a human from space. [53] [54]
[ image needed ]1977 KH-11 First real-time satellite imagery. [55]
First Picture of the Earth and Moon in a Single Frame - GPN-2002-000202.jpg September 18, 1977 Voyager 1 First full-disk picture of both Earth and the Moon. [35]
Pale Blue Dot.png February 14, 1990The Pale Blue Dot is the first image of Earth from beyond all of the other Solar System planets. It is part of the first picture of the full extent of the planetary system, known as the Family Portrait . [19] [56]
December 11, 1990 Galileo First movie of a full rotation of Earth. [57]
August 11, 1999 Mir EO-27 (Perseus) First view of the shadow of the Moon projected onto Earth during a total solar eclipse (photograph taken by Jean-Pierre Haigneré). [49]
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[ image needed ]		October 13, 1999 IKONOS First commercial high-resolution (sub-meter) satellite photography (non-classified); it made the cover of the New York Times . [58]
Earth and Moon from Mars PIA04531.jpg May 8, 2003 13:00 UTC Mars Global Surveyor First image of Earth and the Moon from Mars (in orbit); notice South America is visible. [33] [6]
PIA05547-Spirit Rover-Earth seen from Mars.png March 11, 2004 Spirit Mars Exploration rover First image taken of Earth from the surface of Mars and any celestial body other than the Moon.
PIA08324 - Pale Blue Orb.jpg July 27, 2006 Cassini-Huygens The Pale Blue Orb is the first image of Earth from Saturn. [59]
MESSENGER views 2014-10-08 lunar eclipse from Mercury orbit.gif October 8, 2014 MESSENGER The first image of Earth's shadow causing a lunar eclipse from another planet. Taken from Mercury (in orbit) of the October 2014 lunar eclipse. [60] [61]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Within the context of this timeline, outer space is considered as starting at the Kármán line, 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL).

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