California, April 23: Earth Day – the day to cherish our origin right? We belong to our Earth and Earth belongs to us. We humans always tend to ignore the beauty of our Mother Earth. Beautiful greens and blues we have been seeing in photographs – our Earth is more than that!
NASA has clicked stunning pictures of Earth. Here is the visual delight to take back to your Earthily moments!
The ball of white and blue mesmerizes you: The release of the first images today from NOAA’s newest satellite, GOES-16, is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. This composite color full-disk visible image is from 1:07 p.m. EDT on Jan. 15, 2017, and was created using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument.
Sleeping beauty, Earth: Greetings from @Astro_Sabot, otherwise known as Mark Vande Hei, from aboard the International Space Station.
Twinkle, twinkle Earthy star: Capturing images of our home planet from the perspective of faraway Kepler spacecraft has become a tradition at NASA, ever since Voyager, 28 years ago, displayed our “pale blue dot” in the vastness of space.
Tiny tot with a companion –Moon: THE OSIRIS-REx mission, which will map and return samples from asteroid Bennu, is expected to reach the asteroid in August, 2018. This composite image of the Earth and Moon is made from data captured by OSIRIS-REx's MapCam instrument on Oct. 2, 2017, when the spacecraft was approximately 3 million miles from Earth.
Hello sunshine from Pacific: This Earth observation composite image from the International Space Station captures morning sunglint and low clouds over the central Pacific Ocean. The image was put together at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, from a series of photographs taken by Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams on March 25, 2016.
Where the lights unite with colours: An astronaut aboard the International Space Station adjusted the camera for night imaging and captured the green veils and curtains of an aurora that spanned thousands of kilometres over Quebec, Canada.
White fairies riding with their chariots crossing oceans: This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during orbit no. 19, on June 4, 1965. The Gemini IV crew conducted scientific experiments, including photography of Earth's weather and terrain, for the remainder of their four-day mission following Ed White's historic spacewalk on June 3.
Peaky brothers standing tall: This photo of volcanoes in Guatemala was taken from NASA's C-20A aircraft during a four-week Earth science radar imaging mission deployment over Central and South America.
When the ice cream melts over chocolate: This image of the Transantarctic Mountains was taken from the NASA P-3 airborne laboratory on Nov. 27, 2013, near the end of the 2013 IceBridge Antarctic campaign.
Fill in the blanks with ice-sheets: The terrain for the scientific work conducted by ICESCAPE scientists on July 4, 2010, was Arctic sea ice and melt ponds in the Chukchi Sea. The five-week field mission was dedicated to sampling the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the ocean and sea ice.
