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"We catch a glimpse of a huge swirl of clouds out the window over the middle of the Pacific Ocean, or the boot of Italy jutting down into the Mediterranean, or the brilliant blue coral reefs of the Caribbean strutting their beauty before the stars. And...we experienced those uniquely human qualities: awe, curiosity, wonder, joy, amazement." (Russell L. Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut ("The Home Planet")






Photographing the Earth from the International Space Station

Astronaut Photography on Other Government Sites

  1. The Human Remote Sensor in Space: Astronaut Photography, by Paul D. Lowman, Jr. (Section 12 in Remote Sensing Tutorial: An Online Handbook)
  2. Captioned slide sets including astronaut photography, produced by NASA's Lunar and Planetary Institute:
    1. Terrestrial Impact Craters, compiled by Christian Koeberl and Virgil L. Sharpton
    2. Volcanic Features of Hawaii and Other Worlds, compiled by Peter Mouginis-Mark
    3. Shuttle Views the Earth: Geology from Space, compiled by Peter Francis and Pat Jones
    4. Shuttle Views the Earth: Clouds from Space, compiled by Pat Jones
    5. Shuttle Views the Earth: Oceans from Space, compiled by Pat Jones and Gordon Wells
    6. Shuttle Views the Earth: Human Imprints from Space, compiled by D. W. Gwynn, M. J. Wilkinson, and K. P. Lulla
  3. A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Note on Photography
  4. Oceanography from the Space Shuttle University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Office of Naval Research USN
  5. ReefBase (A Global Information System on Coral Reef shows selected astronaut photographs of reef areas)