In 2002, NASA produced an official Blue Marble image, a true color image of the planet created using data from the agency's Terra satellite. Images from Earth became much more commonplace in the 1960s, when satellites began monitoring our planet from space.

The 340-mph (550 kph) return to terra firma destroyed the camera, but the film, contained in a steel cassette, survived. Earth from space: 'Overview effect' could help troubled country, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson saysĬapturing a frame every second and a half as it climbed through the atmosphere, the rocket-carried camera fell back to Earth just minutes after its launch. 8 ways that SpaceX has transformed spaceflight In 1946, just after the end of World War II, grainy black-and-white photos of our planet from space were captured by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera carried by a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Blue Marble wasn't the first image of Earth from space, however. It marked the first time that the South Pole had been visible from an Apollo spacecraft. One of the most reproduced and widely distributed photographs in history, the image shows Earth from the Mediterranean Sea to Antarctica. The famous photo was captured by astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft as they journeyed to the moon and was snapped at an altitude of around 28,000 miles (45,000 km). Perhaps the most famous of these is the original 'Blue Marble' image taken in December 1972. The new SpaceX video joins a wealth of stunning images and footage taken of Earth from space. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

Earth 360 view from space