Category: Planets & Space Landscapes

The “Blue Marble”, the iconic view of sun-illumnated Earth (Large format)

This fabulous large format presentation vintage chromogenic print shows the most reproduced photograph in the entire history of photography. Only this final Apollo 17 mission saw the Earth fully illuminated.

11/08/2023
A lunar view of Earth taken with the astronomy camera

A very rare far-ultraviolet photograph of the Earth from the lunar surface taken with the UV astronomy camera.

09/08/2023
Superb view of the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea

Gemini 11 photograph of the Gulf of Aden to the right and the Red Sea to the left. At top center is Saudi Arabia and at the bottom Somalia and Ethiopia are visible.

09/08/2023
First Panorama on Mars

This image is the first panoramic view of the Martian surface, taken by the Viking 1 lander.

09/08/2023
First pictures taken flying by planet Mercury, Mariner 10

Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of Mecury and return a series of images showing a very Moon-like surface with craters, ridges and chaotic terrain.

09/08/2023
A view of Venus during the first exploration to 2 planets: Mercury & Venus

This view of Venus was taken from 720,000km by Mariner 10’s television camera on February 6, 1974, one day after he spacecraft flew past Venus enroute to Mercury. The pictures were taken in invisible ultraviolet light.

09/08/2023
First lunar eclipse observed from deep space

Extremely rare photograph of the first lunar eclipse observed from deep space. The Apollo 15 spacecraft was about 200,000 km from Earth when the crew captured this truly out of this world view of a lunar eclipse from deep space (through the 80mm lens) that had never been witnessed by humans before.

09/08/2023
LM Eagle and Earthrise

After 21 hours on the surface, the LM Eagle with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on board rose to join Michael Collins in the orbiting CSM Columbia. As Eagle approached for docking, Collins witnessed the unique view of an Earthrise behind Eagle. He became the only person in history to capture a photograph showing every…

09/08/2023
Planet Earth rises above the lunar horizon

While the spacecraft orbits the Moon, the Earth emerges above the lunar horizon and appears in the window of the spacecraft. This is the third Earthrise witnessed by humans, during orbit 7.

09/08/2023
Receding full Moon after trans-Earth injection

A three-quarter view of the full Moon seen from the departing Apollo 10 spacecraft after the trans Earth injection.

09/08/2023