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Total Solar Eclipse Darkens North America
Published April 9, 2024
Satellites gathered striking views of the Moon’s shadow from above as observers on the ground were awed by the Sun’s corona.
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Darkened by the Moon’s Shadow
Published October 17, 2023
As the Moon crossed between the Sun and Earth during the 2023 annular eclipse, its shadow darkened skies across the United States.
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Small Gray Dots
Published January 1, 2023
A spacecraft designed to explore asteroids near Jupiter also looked back at Earth, acquiring distant views of our Moon and home planet.
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All of You on the Good Earth
Published December 24, 2018
These iconic photos are not new, but their message never gets old.
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Looking Back Across a Sea of Black
Published November 22, 2018
A spacecraft looked homeward while making its way to the asteroid Bennu.
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A Cubic View of Earth
Published May 28, 2018
The MarCO-B CubeSat snapped its first photo on May 9, 2018, and caught a glance of home.
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Cassini’s Final View of Home
Published April 29, 2017
As the spacecraft headed into its last days, it sent back this image of Earth framed by Saturn’s rings.
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Earth and Moon from Mars
Published January 21, 2017
A powerful telescope on a satellite orbiting Mars turned its gaze back on Earth.
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Earthrise Reimagined
Published December 25, 2015
Cameras on a lunar orbiter and some clever image processing techniques led to a new take on a historic image of the Earth and Moon.
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Keeping on the Sunny Side of Earth
Published December 16, 2015
Storms and a lunar eclipse are a few of the phenomena visible in animations of Earth’s full disk.
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The Dark Side and the Bright Side
Published August 6, 2015
The Deep Space Climate Observatory captured a unique view of the Moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. The Artemis mission will soon take us back for closeups.
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An EPIC New View of Earth
Published July 21, 2015
From one million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth.
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