Future space inhabitants will live with constant reminders of the home planet. The V-2, a terrible weapon designed and developed to destroy, transformed into a tool of discovery and destiny. Studying Earth from ISS gives planetary scientists a long-term look at our planet Imagine having this view from your living quarters each day. The above image is the first photograph taken of the Earth from space. The next panorama was created with photographs taken in 1948 from an altitude of over 100 miles, the highest taken with the V-2. On October 24, 1946, the US Army launched a V-2 that carried a 35mm camera taking photographs every 1.5 seconds as the rocket climbed to a height of 65 miles. With the advancement of satellite imagery and orbit coverage, we can now measure a wide range of physical attributes of the Earth system from space. Image Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory The first panorama is comprised of photos taken from an altitude of 60 miles, with a view expanding from Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico to the Gulf of California and the Baja Peninsula. Later V-2 flights took thousands of additional photographs, enabling assembly into panoramas and video, such as those below. The V-2, a terrible weapon designed and developed to destroy, transformed into a tool of discovery and destiny. We monitor Earth’s vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. On October 24, 1946, the US Army launched a V-2 that carried a 35mm camera taking photographs every 1.5 seconds as the rocket climbed to a height of 65 miles. NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet, improve lives, and safeguard our future. When the war ended in 1945, the United States captured hundreds of the V-2s and brought them back to the United States and White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico for testing. The first image of Earth from space stands as a crowning achievement of humankind’s quest for understanding, borne, ironically, from humanity’s darkest nature.ĭuring World War II, Germany developed the V-2 rocket to rain terror and death upon Britain. By reaching for the heavens, we came to see ourselves. The pinnacle of the space program has been seeing the Earth from space and gaining a perspective of our place in the universe impossible otherwise. When I think about space, I think of Earth. Image Credit: Department of Defense, Department of the Army 1946 Apollo Reflections: General Thomas Stafford on Gemini & Apolloįirst photo of the Earth from Space.Reflections: Apollo 13 in Pictures and Words.Reflections: Apollo 7 in Pictures and Words.
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