Moon Over Earth From Space

Views of the full moon captured from the International Space Station, showing Earth's curvature and atmospheric layers in a backdrop of darkness.

iss057e106068 (Nov. 23, 2018) --- The Full Moon is pictured by an Expedition 57 crew member as the International Space Station orbited 251 miles above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, territories of India, in the bay of Bengal.

iss057e106068 (Nov. 23, 2018) --- The Full Moon is pictured by an Expedition 57 crew member as the International Space Station orbited 251 miles above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, territories of India, in the bay of Bengal.

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ISS030-E-031738(11 Jan. 2012) --- One of a series of photos of the moon and Earths atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station over a period of time that covered a number of orbits by the orbital outpost.

ISS014-E-08948 (4 Dec. 2006) --- This distorted view of a full moon intersecting Earth's horizon was photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember onboard the International Space Station.

Earth observation taken during a day pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Folder lists this as Phenomenon over Northern Russia - 4 (plus Europe pass). Distant and hazy Moon is visible.

Lunar observation taken during moonset by the Expedition 39 crew aboard the ISS. Earth and airglow are in view. Image was released by astronaut on Twitter.

ISS042E307643 (03/08/2015) --- A nearly full moon shines brightly on the Earths atmosphere on Mar.8, 2015 enticing astronauts aboard the International Space Station to snap this image as part of the Earth Observation program.

The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured on Valentine's Day from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above southwest Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea.

iss059e000462 (March 16, 2019) --- The waxing gibbous moon is pictured above Earth's limb as the International Space Station was orbiting 266 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean.

S62-06026 (20 Feb. 1962) --- View of Earth taken by astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. during his Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight.

ISS043E200058 (05/07/2015) --- The Moon shines brightly on planet Earth's horizon in this image snapped from the International Space Station May 7, 2015 by the crew of Expedition 43 led by Commander Terry Virts, NASA astronaut.

ISS037-E-009251 (10 Oct. 2013) --- This is one of a series of photos that captured a missile launch from Earth as seen on Oct. 10, 2013 by the Expedition 37 crew aboard the International Space Station.

. iss069e029091 (July 5, 2023) --- The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured above Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Namibia.

S128-E-006611 (30 Aug. 2009) --- A gibbous moon is visible above Earth's atmosphere, photographed by an STS-128 crew member on the Space Shuttle Discovery during flight day three activities.

Space Shuttle takes off into space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

ISS013-E-68671 (18 Aug. 2006) --- A crescent moon is visible in this view of Earth's horizon and airglow, photographed by an Expedition 13 crewmember on the International Space Station.

ISS030-E-028859 (9 Jan. 2012) --- One of a series of photos of the moon and Earths atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station over a period of time that covered a number of orbits by the orbital outpost.

The waxing gibbous Moon is photographed above Earth's horizon from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above Turkey.

ISS028-E-030098 (22 Aug. 2011) --- A last quarter moon appears at the center of this night time photo taken from the International Space Station in Earth orbit. A thin line of the planet's atmosphere is the other illuminated object in the picture.

(15-24 May 1997) --- Comet Hale Bopp, seen and photographed a month and a half ago by the STS-83 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, was also visible on this mission and the crew took advantage of several photo opportunities. A crewmember used an eight-second time exposure on a 35mm camera to expose this frame of the comet over Earth's horizon. Streaking of the stars, usually associated with time exposures, was avoided due to Space Shuttle Atlantis' inertial attitude with the stars..

STS099-355-024 (11-22 February 2000) -- Two separate atmospheric optical phenomena appear in this 35mm photograph captured from the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The thin greenish band above the horizon is airglow; radiation emitted by the atmosphere from a layer about 30-kilometers thick and about 100-kilometers' altitude. The predominant emission in airglow is the green 5577-Angstrom wavelength emission from atomic oxygen atoms, which is also the predominant emission from the aurora. A yellow-orange color is also seen in airglow, which is the emission of the 5800-Angstrom wavelength from sodium atoms. Airglow is always present in the atmosphere; it results from the recombination of molecules that have been broken apart by solar radiation during the day. But airglow is so faint that it can only be seen at night by looking "edge on" at the emission layer, such as the view that astronauts have in Earth orbit. The other phenomenon in the photo appears to be a faint, diffuse

iss059e111615 (June 17, 2019) --- The full moon is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 254 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Guam.

iss061e003881 (Oct. 5, 2019) --- A first quarter Moon is pictured from the International Space Station just above the Earth's limb.

iss061e118331 (Jan. 4, 2020) --- A first quarter Moon is pictured as the International Space Station orbited 265 miles above the South Pacific.

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iss055e043612 (April 30, 2018) --- The full moon was pictured April 30, 2018 as the International Space Station orbited off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

iss064e049348 (March 30, 2021) --- A waning gibbous Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the International Space Station orbited 270 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina.

. iss068e054897 (Feb. 17, 2023) - The last rays of an orbital sunset fade into the Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 268 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.

The waning gibbous Moon is pictured above the Earth's horizon as the International Space Station orbited 272 miles above the Atlantic Ocean in betweenthe tips of South America and South Africa.

ISS030-E-015483 (22 Dec. 2011) --- Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earths horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2011.

A View From Space of Crescent Earth

iss065e002675 (April 24, 2021) --- The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour is pictured during its approach to the International Space Station less than one day after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts, Commander Shane Kimbrough and Pilot Megan McArthur with Mission Specialists Akihiko Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet, would join the Expedition 65 crew shortly after docking Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter.

. iss069e011321 (May 22, 2023) - The SpaceX Freedom Dragon crew ship with four Axiom Mission-2 private astronauts aboard is pictured approaching the International Space Station 262 miles above the Earth. Freedom, commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with Pilot John Shoffner and Mission Specialists Ala Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port at 9:12 a.m. EDT on Monday beginning eight days of docked operations with the seven-member Expedition 69 crew.

S119-E-010690 (27 March 2009) --- On its final full day in space before a scheduled return home on March 28, the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery took some pictures of the home planet. Unlike most of the images, which showed closer views of Earth featuring oceans, lakes, rivers, clouds, mountains and deserts, this view shows Earth's limb as the spacecraft approached a rising or setting sun.

STS061-57-021 (2-12 Dec 1993) --- This scene, captured with a 35mm camera from inside the Space Shuttle Endeavour, shows the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Moon together.

ISS026-E-029343 (24 Feb. 2011) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earths horizon, the European Space Agency's "Johannes Kepler" Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) appears very small as it approaches the International Space Station. Docking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:59 a.m. (EST) on Feb. 24, 2011.

ISS014-E-08940 (4 Dec. 2006) --- This distorted view of a full moon intersecting Earth's horizon was photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember onboard the International Space Station.

iss065e002848 (April 24, 2021) --- The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour is pictured approaching the International Space Station as both spacecraft orbited 261 miles above the Arabian Sea.

AS12-50-7362 (14 Nov. 1969) --- A view of one-third of Earth, with Australia on the horizon, as photographed by the three-man crew of Apollo 12. The Command and Service Modules, mated to the Lunar Module (yet to be removed and transpositioned for landing) were en route to the moon for man's second mission there. Onboard the spacecraft were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean.

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The waxing gibbous Moon is pictured on Valentine's Day from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

S114-E-7646 (6 August 2005) --- A sunrise dissecting a line of airglow of Earth's atmosphere provides the backdrop for this image featuring a portion of the Space Shuttle Discoverys aft cargo bay, its vertical stabilizer and orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods after departure from the International Space Station. The image was photographed by an STS-114 crewmember onboard the Shuttle.

ISS030-E-015479 (22 Dec. 2011) --- Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earths horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2011.

STS072-308-033 (11-20 Jan. 1996) --- The vertical stabilizer of the Space Shuttle Endeavour almost appears to be pointing out the odd phenomenon of sun streaks and shadows on clouds over the southwestern United States. This was one of seventeen still images shown by the crew members for NASA employees and guests following their stay in space aboard the Endeavour.

Artemis I will be the first integrated flight test of NASAs deep space exploration system: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground systems at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight that will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration, and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human existence to the Moon and beyond. During this flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and travel thousands of miles beyond the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown, over the course of about a three-week mission.

ISS030-E-174985 (28 March 2012) --- European Space Agencys Edoardo Amaldi Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) approaches the International Space Station. The unmanned cargo spacecraft docked to the space station at 6:31 p.m. (EDT) on March 28, 2012, delivering 220 pounds of oxygen, 628 pounds of water, 4.5 tons of propellant, and nearly 2.5 tons of dry cargo, including experiment hardware, spare parts, food and clothing.

A total solar eclipse with the diamond ring effect

ISS030-E-015472 (22 Dec. 2011) --- Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earths horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, onboard the International Space Station on Dec. 22, 2011.

STS054-71-087 (13 Jan 1993) --- The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) is backdropped against the blackness of space, minutes after its release from the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Onboard NASA's newest Shuttle for the six-day mission are astronauts John H. Casper, mission commander; Donald R. McMonagle, pilot; and Mario Runco Jr., Gregory J. Harbaugh and Susan J. Helms, mission specialists. The photograph was taken with a 70mm camera.

ISS010-E-18582 (24 February 2005) --- A full moon is visible in this view above Earths horizon and airglow, photographed by an Expedition 10 crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS).

Moon surface and Earth on the horizon. Space art fantasy. Black and white. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

mars An illustration of the red planet mars Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 1251338

World from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. 3d rendering. World from space

Earthrise seen from surface of the Moon, Apollo Mission, 1969. Artist: Unknown

iss064e029985 (Feb. 9, 2021) --- This view of the departing ISS Progress 76 resupply ship looks out from a passenger window on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience." The Progress 76 had undocked moments earlier from the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment. Both spacecraft were orbiting 264 miles above the Russia-Mongolia border when this photograph was taken.

Astronaut in space over Earth planet. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Mixed media. Exploring outer space. Mixed media

Project 30-35 - Operation Teapot (Nevada Test Site) Detonation. BEE fireball/cloud, ground view. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.

Volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon, lo, 1979. Artist: Unknown

Neptune and Triton, illustration

iss060e080405 (Sept. 25, 2019) --- Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Christina Koch photographed the Soyuz MS-15 crew ship ascending into space after its launch from Kazakhstan. The Soyuz would dock a few hours later to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates.

iss062e148372 (April 13, 2020) --- The Earth's glow blankets the horizon as the International Space Station was nearing Perth, Australia over the Indian Ocean.

AS08-16-2596 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- View of Earth as photographed by the Apollo 8 astronauts during their lunar orbit mission. North is about five percent to the right of vertical. The sunset terminator crosses North and South America. Clouds cover most of the United States. Only the desert southwest and Florida are clear.

Astronaut in space over Earth planet. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Exploring outer space. Mixed media

. iss068e040553 (Jan. 15, 2023) - An external high-definition camera captured the launch plume of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket after it had ascended to Earth orbit following its liftoff on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The International Space Station was flying 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean just after an orbital sunset at the time of this photograph.

AS07-07-1832 (15 Oct. 1968) --- Toba, Kakar, Fort Sandeman, Sulaiman Range area in (West) Pakistan, as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 84th revolution of Earth. Note geological features such as folded mountain structures, anticlines and synclines. Photographed from an altitude of 108 nautical miles, at ground elapsed time of 132 hours and 30 minutes.

Planet Pluto. 3d rendering digital background. Space backdrop. Planet Pluto. 3d rendering digital background. Space backdrop Copyright: xZoonar.com/RomanxBudnikovx 11770364

An impression of the green ice giant planet, Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet in order of distance from the Sun, orbiting at an average distance o...

Range 5.9 million kilometers (3.66 million miles) Europa is Jupiter's 2nd Galilean satellite from the planet. Photo taken early morning and through a violet filter. Faint swirls and Linear Patterns show in the equarorial region(which is darker than the poles). The hemisphere shown always faces Jupiter. North is up. Europa is the brightest of the Galilian satellites but shows low contrast on this hemisphere. Density and size is similar to Earth's Moon. Indications of water ice or ground water on surface is shown

gas giant Saturn with a bright sun orbiting in space concept

Astronaut in space over Earth planet. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Mixed media. Exploring outer space. Mixed media

This dramatic close-up of Saturn's south pole shows the hurricane-like vortex that resides there. The entire polar region is dotted with bright clouds, including one that appears to be inside the central ring of the polar storm

. iss068e014220 (Oct. 6, 2022) --- The SpaceX Dragon Endurance crew ship, carrying four Crew-5 members, approaches the International Space Station with the waxing gibbous Moon pictured in the background. Credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren

Launch of a Minuteman laser-guided missile-30 during the crimson sunset. Base: Vandenberg Air Force Base State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

This artist's concept is of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover parachute system; the largest parachute ever built to fly on a planetary mission. The parachute is attached to the top of the backshell portion of the spacecraft's aeroshell.

A ghostly coronal light reveals Mercury's rugged and inhospitable surface

A crew member of the STS-93 mission took this photograph of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, still attached to the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), backdropped against the darkness of space not long after its release from Orbiter Columbia. Two firings of an attached IUS rocket placed the Observatory into its working orbit. The primary duty of the crew of this mission was to deploy the 50,162-pound Observatory, the world's most powerful x-ray telescope.

This illustration imagines the view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft during one of its final dives between Saturn and its innermost rings, as part of the mission's Grand Finale. Cassini made 22 orbits that swooped between the rings and the planet before ending its mission on Sept. 15, 2017, with a final plunge into Saturn.

ISS037-E-009296 (10 Oct. 2013) --- This is one of a series of views that captured a missile launch from Earth as seen on Oct. 10, 2013 by the Expedition 37 crew aboard the International Space Station.

S88-50997 (20 Feb. 1962) --- View of Earth taken by astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. during his Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight.

Photograph of Halley's Comet in 1910. Discovered by Edmond Halley (1656-1742) an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. Dated 20th century

This diagram illustrates the positions of Mars, Earth and the sun during a period that occurs approximately every 26 months, when Mars passes almost directly behind the sun from Earth's perspective.

Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation used the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera to collect this high-resolution image of the dark side of Jupiter during Perijove 11 on Feb. 7, 2018. The clouds are illuminated by moonlight from Jupiter's moon Io and the two bright spots on the right side of the image are flashes of Jovian lightning. Juno was only 41,000 miles (66,000 kilometers) from the cloud tops when this SRU image was collected. The left side of the composite image shows a 3-dimensional visualization of Jupiter's Northern hemisphere with its northern aurora included. To the right of the aurora and solar terminator line, is a box illustrating the position of the SRU field of view at the time the image was taken. Further to the right is an exploded view of the SRU image.

Range 1 million kilometers Voyager 2 completed a dramatic 10 hour time lapse photo sequence to monitor the active volcanos on Jupiter's moon Io following the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. This picture is one of about 200 images that will be used to generate a time lapse motion picture to illustrate Io's volcanic activity. On the bright limb, two of the plumes (P-5 & P-6) discovered in March by Voyager 1 are again visible. The plumes are spewing materials to a height of about 100 kilometers.

Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger

As of mid-November, ISON is officially upon us. Using Hubble, we've taken our closest look yet at the innermost region of the comet, where geysers of sublimating ice are fueling a spectacular tail. Made from observations on November 2nd, the image combines pictures of ISON taken through blue and red filters. As we expect, the round coma around ISON's nucleus is blue and the tail has a redder hue. Ice and gas in the coma reflect blue light from the Sun, while dust grains in the tail reflect more red light than blue light. This is the most color separation we've seen so far in ISON -- that's because the comet, nearer than ever to the Sun, is brighter and more structured than ever before.We've certainly come a long way since Hubble started observing Comet ISON, way back in April. Of course, our eight-month retrospective pales in comparison with ISON's own journey, which started some 10,000 years ago in the Oort cloud. ISON will come closest to the Sun on November 28, a point in its or

flying astronaut over blue planet in space

Sharing this scene with a half-moon is the Tethered Satellite System (TSS), in a photo captured onboard the STS-46. Circling Earth at an altitude of 296 kilometers (184 miles), the TSS-1 will be well within the tenuous, electrically charged layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. There, a satellite attached to the orbiter by a thin conducting cord, or tether, will be reeled from the Shuttle payload bay. On this mission the satellite was plarned to be deployed 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) above the Shuttle. The conducting tether will generate high voltage and electrical currents as it moves through the atmosphere allowing scientists to examine the electrodynamics of a conducting tether system. These studies will not only increase our understanding of physical processes in the near-Earth space environment, but will also help provide an explanation for events witnessed elsewhere in the solar system. The crew of the STS-46 mission were unable to reel the satellite as planned. After

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A Delta II rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, or SMAP, to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 9:22 a.m. EST. SMAP's measurements will be invaluable across many science and applications disciplines including hydrology, climate, carbon cycle, and the meteorological, environmental and ecology applications communities. SMAP is designed to produce the highest-resolution maps of soil moisture ever obtained from space.

ISS009-E-18371 (14 August 2004) --- Backdropped against the blackness of space, an unpiloted Progress supply vehicle approaches the International Space Station (ISS). The Progress 15 resupply craft launched at 12:03 a.m. (CDT) on August 11, 2004 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen, water and supplies to the Expedition 9 crewmembers onboard the Station. Progress docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 12:01 a.m. (CDT) on August 14 as the two craft flew 225 statute miles over central Asia.

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun. Aboard Apollo 12 was a crew of three astronauts Alan L. Bean, pilot of the Lunar Module (LM), Intrepid; Richard Gordon, pilot of the Command Module (CM), Yankee Clipper; and Spacecraft Commander Charles Conrad. The LM, Intrepid, landed astronauts Conrad and Bean on the lunar surface in whats known as the Ocean of Storms while astronaut Richard Gordon piloted the CM, Yankee Clipper, in a parking orbit around the Moon. Lunar soil activities included the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), finding the unmanned Surveyor 3 that landed on the Moon on April 19, 1967, and collecting 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of rock samples. This is the eighteenth of 25 images captured by th

AS08-16-2583 (21 Dec. 1968) --- This is a photograph taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft looking back at the Saturn V third (S-IVB) stage from which the spacecraft had just separated following trans-lunar injection. Attached to the S-IVB is the Lunar Module Test Article (LTA) which simulated the mass of a Lunar Module (LM) on the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. The 29-feet panels of the Spacecraft LM Adapter which enclosed the LTA during launch have already been jettisoned and are out of view. Sunlight reflected from small particles shows the firefly phenomenon which was reported by astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. during the first Earth-orbital flight, Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) of the Mercury Program.

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