NSSDC Photo Gallery |
This page contains images taken by various missions which contain both the Earth and Moon.
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This is one of the more famous images of the Earth from the Apollo program, taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts as they became the first humans to circumnavigate the Moon. | Caption | AS08-14-2383, 68-HC-870 | 21K | Hi-res |
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This image was taken by Clementine as it came over the north lunar pole at the completion of mapping orbit 102 on March 13, 1994. The angular separation between lunar horizon and Earth has been reduced for illustration purposes. The large crater at the bottom of the image is Plaskett (180 W longitude, 82 N latitude). (A version of this image with just the Earth in the image is available on the NSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth page.) | 68K | Hi-res |
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This image was taken by Galileo as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in 1990. | Caption | P-41508 | 26K | Hi-res |
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This image was taken by NEAR as it flew by the Earth-Moon system in January 1998. | Caption | 12K |
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This image was taken by Voyager as it left the Earth-Moon system and looked back. It was the first picture taken by a spacecraft which included both the Earth and Moon. | Caption | P-19891, 79-HC-3 | 38K |
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Author/curator: Dr. Edwin V. Bell, II NSSDC, Mail Code 690.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 +1-301-286-1187 ed.bell@gsfc.nasa.gov |