Space – Blue Marble Pics

HDEV Livestream (2014-2019): The Pale Blue Dot

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NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) Experiment, mounted on the ISS External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, was activated April 30, 2014 and after 5 years and 79 days was viewed by more than 318 million viewers across the globe on USTREAM alone. This high definition video opens with a text … Read More “HDEV Livestream (2014-2019): The Pale Blue Dot” »

“It’s a Blue World”

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Art, Science & Technology

The technological developments of the latter half of the 20th century are widely considered to have altered the public’s perception of the Earth. Before space flight, the popular image of Earth was of a green world. Science fiction artist Frank R. Paul provided perhaps the first image of a cloudless blue planet (with sharply defined … Read More ““It’s a Blue World”” »