8 stunning images of Earth from space shared by NASA

Blue Marble 2002 Taking a full photograph of Earth from space takes some doing. In 1972 the crew of Apollo 17 took a camera to the moon.

Collapse of An Ice Shelf: A mountain range runs up the spine of the Antarctic Peninsula, while ice shelves flank it on either side. 

Smoke Plumes From Space: The sensors on the flagship satellites can not only detect the heat given off by wildfires.

Sea Ice Moves: The Aqua satellite was by no means the first to observe sea ice from space.

The Mysteries of Clouds and Aerosols: The two variables that still create the most uncertainty about how future climate change will unfold.

A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.

Eight days after its final encounter with the Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back and captured this remarkable view of the Earth and Moon.

In 2002, NASA scientists stitched together strips of natural color images of Earth, collected over four months from the MODIS instrument.

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