The First Photograph of Earth Taken From Space Is 75 Years Old

The Soviets may have launched the first satellite into orbit; However first photo from space The sufferers were American scientists and researchers in New Mexico. Soldiers and scientists in the White Sands Missile Range on October 24, 1946, carrying a 35-millimeter camera.r V-2 missile By launching it into space, it was able to take the first images of the Earth from space.

These images, taken from an altitude of about 105 km, slightly above the accepted outer space origin; from crash landing due to being wrapped in a steel tape. without getting hit managed to escape. However, this success does not mean that this is the first time the Earth’s curvature has been observed. In 1935, 11 years before the launch of the V-2 missile, the Explorer II balloon reached an altitude of about 22 km and observed the global horizon.

Photography has evolved along with space exploration.

After WWII, the US Army fired dozens of confiscated V-2 German missiles to improve American missile defense. During this time, the researchers discovered some missiles. suitable for atmospheric studies. equipped with scientific tools. Between 1946 and 1950, some of them from space were shot at altitudes as high as 160 km. more than 1000 images obtained.

As part of space exploration photography also developed over time. Today, astronauts are trained in photography as well as how to conduct scientific experiments on the International Space Station (ISS).

These first images from space in a 1950 National Geographic article, “How our world will look to visitors from another planet in a spaceship” was defined as. Decades after the first images, Apollo 8 astronauts; They captured another pretty famous image of Earth. This new image of Earth is one of humanity’s most recent how far you’ve come it was a reminder.

In the near future James Webb Telescope Space telescopes such as these will be able to take much more detailed pictures. Let’s take a brief look at the history of space photography, 73 years after the launch of the V-2 rocket.

First photograph from space, 1946

First television image of Earth from space and first weather satellite image, 1960

The world’s first full-disc color pictures, 1967

The Blue Marble, 1972

First full disc painting of Earth and Moon, 1977

First view of Earth from beyond the Solar System planets, The Pale Blue Dot, 1990

First view of Earth from Saturn, 2006

Another view from Saturn: The Day Earth Smiled, 2013