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Original taken from universal_inf Photos from the artificial Earth satellite Landsat 7
What you see is not photographs of distant planets at all. This is our familiar to all, Earth. The photographs were taken at different times by the Landsat 7 satellite, the last satellite of the program, launched in 1999. In fact, the color gamut of the original images is not so bright, and sometimes even not so at all. The US Geological Survey, who control the distribution of images, changed the colors to make the photos more pronounced and some drama.
3D view of the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA.
Bogda Mountains in China. At the foot of these mountains is a strange terrain that alternates between sand dunes and salt lakes. Another feature - the entire territory is located below sea level.
The Argentine coast of the Atlantic Ocean is a couple of hundred kilometers from Buenos Aires.
Part of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula. The large lagoon of Terminos is protected from the Caribbean Sea by the long island of Isla del Carmen.
The snow-covered Colima volcano is the most active in Mexico and, in fact, is a confluence of two craters - an older one and a younger one.
The southern coast of the Netherlands is a complex system of canals and islands, most of which are sand dunes in the past. Such a system is created so that the North Sea does not cover a significant part of the European state, which is below sea level.
A swampy area in the course of the Brazilian Demini River, which later flows into the Amazon.
The Green River flows through the Tawaputs Plateau and enters Bleak Canyon, Utah, USA.
The delta of the Ganges River, which flows into the Bay of Bengal, is the habitat of the royal Bengal tiger.
The Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. It is the largest tributary of the Amazon. During the rainy season, most of the islands disappear under its waters.
The restless eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, full of volcanoes, is covered with snow.
In the photo on the right, the Bering Sea is covered in ice.
Annual salt lake Disappointment in Western Australia. In translation - disappointment. When explorer Frank Hann saw many streams, he hoped to find a lake with drinking water. But he was disappointed when he found out that the lake is salty.
The largest Malaspina glacier in Alaska and its tongue.
Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa. Here, thanks to coastal winds, there are the highest dunes in the world (up to 300 meters).
Niger Delta, Central Africa.
The Syrian Desert is a bright spot on the physical map of the Middle East. Despite its small size, it is part of four states at once.
The landscape of the Sahara desert, near the Cherkezi oasis in Chad, is characterized by rocky outcroppings to the surface.
Icelandic National Park "Skaftaffel" in the southern part of the Vatnajokull glacier.
Volcanoes with peaks in the form of cones along the border of Chile and Argentina. The total number of volcanoes is about 1800, of which about three dozen are active.
The delta of the Volga, which flows into the Caspian Sea, is the largest fishing ground in Eurasia, thanks to more than five hundred channels.
The northwestern part of the island of Iceland consists of a whole series of peninsulas called
Western fjords. They make up about 1/8th of the entire landmass of the island, but occupy half
coastline.
Take a moment to enjoy 25 truly breathtaking photos of the Earth and Moon from space.
This photograph of Earth was taken by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on July 20, 1969.
Spacecraft launched by mankind enjoy the view of the Earth from a distance of thousands and millions of kilometers.
Taken by Suomi NPP, a US weather satellite operated by NOAA.
Date: April 9, 2015.
NASA and NOAA created this composite image using photographs taken from the Suomi NPP weather satellite, which orbits the Earth 14 times a day.
Their endless observations allow us to track the state of our world with a rare position of the Sun, Moon and Earth.
Taken by the DSCOVR spacecraft for observing the Sun and the Earth.
Date: March 9, 2016.
The DSCOVR spacecraft took 13 images of the moon's shadow running across Earth during the 2016 total solar eclipse.
But the more we delve into space, the more we are fascinated by the sight of the Earth.
Taken by the Rosetta spacecraft.
Date: November 12, 2009.
The Rosetta spacecraft is designed to study the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. In 2007, he made a soft landing on the surface of a comet. The main probe of the apparatus completed its flight on September 30, 2016. This photo shows the South Pole and sunlit Antarctica.
Our planet is like a brilliant blue marble wrapped in a thin, almost invisible layer of gas.
Photographed by the crew of Apollo 17
Date: December 7, 1972.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took this photograph called "The Blue Marble" during the last manned flight to the Moon. This is one of the most shared pictures of all time. It was taken at a distance of about 29 thousand km from the Earth's surface. Africa is visible at the top left of the image, and Antarctica at the bottom.
And she drifts alone in the blackness of space.
Taken by the Apollo 11 crew.
Date: July 20, 1969.
The crew of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin took this picture during a flight to the moon at a distance of about 158 thousand km from Earth. Africa is visible in the frame.
Almost alone.
Approximately twice a year, the Moon passes between the DSCOVR satellite and its main observation object, the Earth. Then we get a rare opportunity to look at the far side of our satellite.
The Moon is a cold stone ball, 50 times smaller than the Earth. She is our largest and closest heavenly friend.
Photographed by William Anders as part of the crew of the Apollo 8 spacecraft.
Date: December 24, 1968.
The famous Earthrise photograph taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft.
According to one hypothesis, the Moon was formed after the proto-Earth collided with a planet the size of Mars about 4.5 billion years ago.
Taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO, Lunar Orbital Probe).
Date: October 12, 2015.
In 2009, NASA launched the LRO robotic interplanetary station to study the cratered surface of the moon, but seizing the moment, the device took this modern version of the Earthrise photograph.
Since the 1950s, humanity has been launching humans and robots into space.
Taken by Lunar Orbiter 1.
Date: August 23, 1966.
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic unmanned spacecraft took this photo while searching for a place to land astronauts on the moon.
Our exploration of the moon is a mixture of technological conquest...
Photographed by Michael Collins of the Apollo 11 crew.
Date: July 21, 1969.
The Eagle, the lunar module of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, returns from the surface of the moon.
and irrepressible human curiosity...
Taken by the lunar probe Chanye 5-T1 (Chang "e 5-T1).
Date: October 29, 2014.
A rare view of the far side of the Moon taken by the Chinese National Space Administration's lunar probe.
and search for extreme adventures.
Taken by the crew of Apollo 10.
Date: May 1969.
This video was filmed by astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan during a test flight to the Moon on the Apollo 10 spacecraft (without landing). To get such an image of "Earthrise" is possible only from a moving ship.
The Earth always seems to be close to the Moon.
Taken with the Clementine 1 probe.
Date: 1994
The Clementine mission was launched on January 25, 1994, as part of a joint initiative between NASA and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. On May 7, 1994, the probe went out of control, but had previously transmitted this image showing the Earth and the Moon's north pole.
Taken by Mariner 10.
Date: November 3, 1973.
A combination of two photographs (on one - the Earth, on the other - the Moon), taken by NASA's Mariner-10 automatic interplanetary station, which was launched to Mercury, Venus and the Moon using an intercontinental ballistic missile.
the more amazing our house looks...
Photographed by the Galileo spacecraft.
Date: December 16, 1992.
En route to studying Jupiter and its moons, NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this composite image. The Moon, which is about three times brighter than the Earth, is in the foreground, closer to the viewer.
And the more lonely he seems.
Taken by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker ("NEAR Shoemaker") spacecraft.
Date: January 23, 1998.
NASA's NEAR spacecraft, sent in 1996 to the asteroid Eros, took these images of the Earth and Moon. Antarctica is visible at the South Pole of our planet.
Most images do not accurately represent the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
Taken by the Voyager 1 probe.
Date: September 18, 1977.
Most photographs of the Earth and Moon are composite images made up of several shots, as the objects are far apart. But above you see the first photo in which our planet and its natural satellite are captured in one frame. The picture was taken by the Voyager 1 probe on its way to its "big tour" of the solar system.
Only after overcoming hundreds of thousands or even millions of kilometers, then returning back, we can truly appreciate the distance that lay between the two worlds.
Photographed by the automatic interplanetary station "Mars-Express".
Date: July 3, 2003.
The robotic interplanetary station of the European Space Agency "Max-Express" (Mars Express), heading to Mars, took this picture of the Earth at a distance of millions of kilometers.
It's a huge and empty space.
Taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter.
Date: April 19, 2001.
This infrared photograph, taken from a distance of 2.2 million km, shows the huge distance between the Earth and the Moon - about 385 thousand kilometers or about 30 Earth diameters. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft took this picture while heading towards Mars.
But even together, the Earth-Moon system looks insignificant in deep space.
Photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Date: August 26, 2011.
NASA's Juno spacecraft took this image during its nearly 5-year journey to Jupiter, where it is conducting research on the gas giant.
From the surface of Mars, our planet appears to be just another "star" in the night sky, which puzzled early astronomers.
Taken by the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover.
Date: March 9, 2004.
About two months after landing on Mars, the Spirit rover took a photo of the Earth looking like a tiny dot. NASA says it is "the first ever image of the Earth taken from the surface of another planet outside the moon."
Earth is lost in Saturn's glowing icy rings.
Photographed by the automatic interplanetary station "Cassini".
Date: September 15, 2006.
NASA's Cassini space station took 165 photographs in the shadow of Saturn to compose this backlit mosaic image of the gas giant. The Earth crept in on the left in the image.
At a distance of billions of kilometers from the Earth, as Carl Sagan sarcastically remarked, our world is just a “pale blue dot”, a small and lonely ball on which all our triumphs and tragedies are played out.
Taken by the Voyager 1 probe.
Date: February 14, 1990.
This image of Earth is one of a series of "solar system portraits" taken by Voyager 1 about 4 billion miles from home.
From Sagan's speech:
“Perhaps there is no better demonstration of stupid human arrogance than this distant picture of our tiny world. It seems to me that it emphasizes our responsibility, our duty to be kinder to each other, to protect and cherish the pale blue dot - our only home.
Sagan's message remains the same: there is only one Earth, so we must do everything in our power to protect it, protect it mostly from ourselves.
The Japanese artificial lunar satellite Kaguya (also known as SELENE) captured this video of the Earth rising over the Moon at 1000% acceleration for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo.
On October 4, 1957, the world's first artificial Earth satellite was launched into low Earth orbit. Thus began the space age in human history. Since then, artificial satellites have been regularly helping to study the cosmic bodies of our galaxy.
Artificial Earth Satellites (AES)
In 1957, the USSR was the first to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. The USA did it second, a year later. Later, many countries launched their satellites into Earth's orbit - however, satellites purchased in the same USSR, the USA or China were often used for this. Now satellites are launched even by radio amateurs. However, many satellites have important tasks: astronomical satellites explore the galaxy and space objects, biosatellites help to conduct scientific experiments on living organisms in space, meteorological satellites make it possible to predict the weather and observe the Earth's climate, and the tasks of navigation and communication satellites are clear from their name. Satellites can be in orbit from several hours to several years: for example, manned spacecraft can become a short-term artificial satellite, and a space station can become a long-term spacecraft in Earth orbit. In total, more than 5800 satellites have been launched since 1957, 3100 of them are still in space, but only about one thousand of these three thousand are working.
Artificial satellites of the moon (ASL)
At one time, ISLs were very helpful in studying the Moon: when entering its orbit, the satellites photographed the lunar surface in high resolution and sent the images to Earth. In addition, by changing the trajectory of the satellites, it was possible to draw conclusions about the gravitational field of the Moon, the features of its shape and internal structure. Here the Soviet Union was again ahead of everyone: in 1966, the Soviet automatic station Luna-10 was the first to enter the lunar orbit. And over the next three years, 5 more Soviet satellites of the Luna series and 5 American satellites of the Lunar Orbiter series were launched.
Artificial satellites of the Sun
It is curious that until the 1970s, artificial satellites appeared near the Sun ... by mistake. The first such satellite was Luna-1, which missed the Moon and entered the orbit of the Sun. And this despite the fact that it is not so easy to switch to a heliocentric orbit: the device must gain the second cosmic velocity without exceeding the third one. And approaching the planets, the device can slow down and become a satellite of the planet, or accelerate and completely leave the solar system. But now NASA satellites, orbiting the Sun near the Earth's orbit, began to perform detailed measurements of the parameters of the solar wind. The Japanese satellite observed the Sun in the X-ray range for about ten years - until 2001. Russia launched a solar satellite in 2009: Koronas-Photon will explore the most dynamic solar processes and monitor solar activity around the clock to predict geomagnetic disturbances.
Artificial satellites of Mars (IMS)
The first artificial satellites of Mars were ... three ISMs at once. Two space probes were released by the USSR ("Mars-2" and "Mars-3") and one more by the USA ("Mariner-9"). But the point is not that the launch took place "in a race" and there was such an overlay: each of these satellites had its own task. All three ISMs were launched into significantly different elliptical orbits and carried out different scientific studies, complementing each other. Mariner 9 produced a map of the surface of Mars for mapping, and Soviet satellites studied the characteristics of the planet: the solar wind flow around Mars, the ionosphere and atmosphere, relief, temperature distribution, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, and other data. In addition, Mars-3 was the first in the world to make a soft landing on the surface of Mars.
Artificial satellites of Venus (WIS)
The first WIS were once again Soviet spacecraft. Venera 9 and Venera 10 went into orbit in 1975. Reaching the planet. They were divided into satellites and landers. Thanks to WIS radar, scientists were able to obtain radio images with a high degree of detail, and the devices that gently landed on the surface of Venus took the world's first photographs of the surface of another planet ... The third satellite was the American Pioneer-Venus-1 - it was launched three years later.
What you see is not photographs of distant planets at all. This is our familiar to all, Earth. The photographs were taken at different times by the Landsat 7 satellite, the last satellite of the program, launched in 1999. In fact, the color gamut of the original images is not so bright, and sometimes even not so at all. The US Geological Survey, who control the distribution of images, changed the colors to make the photos more pronounced and some drama.
3D view of the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA.
Bogda Mountains in China. At the foot of these mountains is a strange terrain that alternates between sand dunes and salt lakes. Another feature - the entire territory is located below sea level.
The Argentine coast of the Atlantic Ocean is a couple of hundred kilometers from Buenos Aires.
Part of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula. The large lagoon of Terminos is protected from the Caribbean Sea by the long island of Isla del Carmen.
The snow-covered Colima volcano is the most active in Mexico and, in fact, is a confluence of two craters - an older one and a younger one.
The southern coast of the Netherlands is a complex system of canals and islands, most of which are sand dunes in the past. Such a system is created so that the North Sea does not cover a significant part of the European state, which is below sea level.
A swampy area in the course of the Brazilian Demini River, which later flows into the Amazon.
The Green River flows through the Tawaputs Plateau and enters Bleak Canyon, Utah, USA.
The delta of the Ganges River, which flows into the Bay of Bengal, is the habitat of the royal Bengal tiger.
The Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon. It is the largest tributary of the Amazon. During the rainy season, most of the islands disappear under its waters.
The restless eastern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula, full of volcanoes, is covered with snow.
In the photo on the right, the Bering Sea is covered in ice.
Annual salt lake Disappointment in Western Australia. In translation - disappointment. When explorer Frank Hann saw many streams, he hoped to find a lake with drinking water. But he was disappointed when he found out that the lake is salty.
The largest Malaspina glacier in Alaska and its tongue.
Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa. Here, thanks to coastal winds, there are the highest dunes in the world (up to 300 meters).
Niger Delta, Central Africa.
The Syrian Desert is a bright spot on the physical map of the Middle East. Despite its small size, it is part of four states at once.
The landscape of the Sahara desert, near the Cherkezi oasis in Chad, is characterized by rocky outcroppings to the surface.
Icelandic National Park "Skaftaffel" in the southern part of the Vatnajokull glacier.
Volcanoes with peaks in the form of cones along the border of Chile and Argentina. The total number of volcanoes is about 1800, of which about three dozen are active.
The delta of the Volga, which flows into the Caspian Sea, is the largest fishing ground in Eurasia, thanks to more than five hundred channels.
The northwestern part of the island of Iceland consists of a whole series of peninsulas called
Western fjords. They make up about 1/8th of the entire landmass of the island, but occupy half
coastline.