From Earthrise to Blue Marble, here are some of the finest out-of-this-world photographs of Earth.
Sixty years ago on Aug. 7, 1959, theExplorer 6satellite sent back crude TV images ofEarth from space.
Luckily, things moved on pretty quick.
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Earthrise
Its Christmas Eve, 1968, and the first humans are orbiting the Moon.
NASAs Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders see the far side of the Moon.
It was the beginning of the realization that we need to take care of it.
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However, a NASA satellite calledthe Deep Space Climate Observatory now streams a Blue Marble image.
Forty years after the original, NASA publishedBlue Marble 2012in tribute, but alsoBlack Marbleshowing light pollution.
Look again at that dot.
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Voyager 1 was 3.7 billion miles away from Earth at the time.
Now its 13 billion miles distant, and firmly in interstellar space.
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