TOP FIVE Photos of Earth From Outer Space

Описание: These are the 5 most amazing photos of Earth from outer space.

At #5 we have a time-lapse of Venus, Earth, and Mars captured from the NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter from 155.7 million miles away.

With #4, we have a picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft. It was recorded by NASA’s Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth on Sept. 18, 1977.

Coming in at #3 is an iconic picture that shows Earth rising out from beyond the lunar surface captured from Apollo 8. The original picture showed Earth coming out from behind a vertical horizon with north at the top, but NASA felt the public would grasp it better if it showed the Earth from a horizontal point of view.

At #2, we have the Blue Marble taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft. It may be one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence.

And #1, the Pale Blue Dot, a photo of planet Earth from a record distance of about 3.7 billion miles away (6 billion kilometers) captured on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1.