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Mars Global Surveyor: First image of Earth and the Moon from Mars (in orbit); notice South America is visible. [33] [6] 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. July 27, 2006 Cassini-Huygens: The Pale Blue Orb is the first image of Earth from ...
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
English: This chart compares the (at the time of their discovery) smallest known exoplanets, or planets orbiting outside the solar system, to our own planets Mars and Earth. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently discovered the three smallest exoplanets known to circle another star, called Kepler ...
The Chinese government has a released a series of stunning high definition images taken from space by a state-of-the-art satellite. China's Gaofen-1 satellite was launched in April 2013.
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[1] [2] [3] Areography is mainly focused on what is called physical geography on Earth; that is the distribution of physical features across Mars and their cartographic representations. In April 2023, The New York Times reported an updated global map of Mars based on images from the Hope spacecraft. [4]
New images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may show where life first began on Mars. ... Because of Earth’s active crust, little evidence still exists from the time when scientists ...
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