Tag: Planets & Space Landscapes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.