Everyone knows the famous images of
earth rise taken from the moon, but I surprised to run across
this earlier amazing 1955 image from space. They pieced it together from a bunch of snapshots automatically shot though a pinhole in the side of a rocket as it rotated at its apex and fell back to earth.
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Also cool is this first
TV image from the space.
For a sense of our progress in extraterrestrial photography, compare these with the
incredibly high-res images from the Suomi satellite released earlier this year.
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