In January 2012 , the newly launched weather satellite NPP Suomi had gather enough swaths of data to cover the entire globe . To commemorate this , the mission squad assemble this into a mapping and projected it over the globe :
NPP ’s " Blue Marble , " westerly cerebral hemisphere , information acquired from about 824 km elevation
It ’s a synthetic view ; NPP flies too confining to ever see this much of Earth at once . But there are ballistic capsule that do get that vaunted view — and more besides . get ’s look at the Earth from increasingly more distant viewpoint …
35,786 km
GOES-7 look-alike of Hurricane Andrew making landfall in 1992 , from Geosynchronous Orbit , 35,786 kilometre EL
45,000 km
The original " Blue Marble " photo , taken by Apollo 17 during transearth cruise , 45,000 km height
55,831 km
Mercury - bound MESSENGER flummox this during an Earth sombreness assist flyby , at a distance of 55,831 km
384,000 km
The most famous of the Earthrise photograph : Earth rising over the lunar limb as consider from Apollo 8 , distance of about 384,000 km
The USAF ’s Clementine space vehicle looks back from the moon , about 384,000 km off
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter count back at Earth from lunar electron orbit , about 384,000 klick away
400,000 km
The NEAR space vehicle , en itinerary to 433 Eros , took this during a flyby of Earth , at a space of 400,000 km
2 - 2.7 million km
Taken by Galileo during its first Earth gravity - help flyby , between 2 and 2.7 million kilometer aside
2.6 million km
old salt 10 depend back during departure , at a space of 2.6 million kilometre ; a composite plant of two paradigm , one of Earth and one of the Moon , move together to show relative weighing machine
3.5 million km
2011 Mars Odyssey looked back at Earth from 3.5 million km , in a vista that shows the true size of it and distance relationship between Earth and Moon
6.2 million km
Taken during Galileo ’s second Earth gravity - assist flyby , about 6.2 million km aside ; the Earth and Moon are rightfully in conjunction
11.66 million km
Voyager 1 took this at a length of 11.66 million km , while start Earth ; it ’s the first view showing both Earth and Moon together in a exclusive frame without compositing and without being in compass around either
From Mars
The Mars Exploration Rover A , " Spirit , " picture Earth in the predawn sky on Sol 63 of its missionary station ; the first mental image of Earth from the surface of another major planet
142 million km
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter contain this from Mars orbit , at a distance of 142 million km
183 million km
courier , look back at Earth from Mercury , at a aloofness of 183 million km
Also MESSENGER , this is a solar organisation portrait from Mercury ; the Earth image is part of this
1.5 billion km
Cassini took this from Saturn arena , at a distance at the clock time of 1.5 billion km . Look cautiously through the ring ; there ’s a bright superstar in there . It ’s Earth .
Enhanced zoom on the Earth from the late frame
6 billion km
February 14 , 1990 , Voyager 1 determine a record that still stand for the most distant effigy of Earth . It is over 6 billion kilometre away . This montage is a solar system crime syndicate portrait , showing six of the planets . Mercury was too unaired to the Sun to be seeable at this range . They essay to shoot Mars , but it was too swooning for Voyager ’s tv camera .
enhance , enlarged view of Earth from the solar organisation portrayal ; Carl Sagan call this image the " Pale Blue Dot . " It is the most removed view we ’ve ever record of ourselves .
