To celebrate Earth Day, the team from Hi-Impact L&D attached an Insta360 ONE X2 action camera to a weather balloon and sent it into the sky, allowing it to capture a stunning view of Earth from over 80,000 feet in the air. [Read More]
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NASA's Orion spacecraft has captured a photo of it with the Earth and Moon in the background from its maximum distance away: 268,563 miles. Orion has now traveled farther away from Earth than any other spacecraft built for humans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-11-29 20:20
NASA astronauts regularly share beautiful images of Earth captured from space. However, a recent batch of photos captured from an even higher orbit than the International Space Station (ISS) provides an even more astonishing view of planet Earth. petapixel.com »
2021-09-30 23:40
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet has shared numerous beautiful photos of Earth taken from the International Space Station, but contrary to popular belief, making these photos isn’t as simple as just hanging out in the space station’s cupola. petapixel.com »
2021-09-24 18:37
As a showcase of its CE-SAT-1 Earth-imaging satellite, Canon is allowing anyone to take their own photos of Earth from space as part of a demonstration for CES. The Canon CE-SAT-1 is a microsatellite – roughly the size of a wine barrel – that the company launched into space in June of 2017 and is […] petapixel.com »
2021-01-14 22:57
Japaneses astronaut Soichi Noguchi has emerged as the International Space Station’s resident photographer, uploading a slew of incredible images of Earth taken from the Cupola Observational Module. petapixel.com »
2020-12-16 20:06
Photo via NASA: view of the SpaceX Crew Dragon and Japan's HTV-9 resupply ship The Twitter account of the International Space Station (ISS) recently shared a short video wherein NASA astronaut Doug Hurley talks about what it’s like to photograph Earth from low Earth orbit. dpreview.com »
2020-07-12 21:14
Yesterday, the official Twitter account of the International Space Station posted a short video interview in which NASA astronaut Doug Hurley explains what it’s like to try and capture the beauty of Earth from 250 miles above. petapixel.com »
2020-07-10 19:57
I think that Mother's Day is a great occasion to appreciate Mother Earth by showing her abstract beauty. boredpanda.com »
2020-05-26 17:24
I think that Mother's Day is a great occasion to appreciate Mother Earth by showing her abstract beauty. boredpanda.com »
2020-05-26 17:24
Take in the beauty of the planet we call home with these majestic views shot from above. As we celebrate the many diverse landscapes that make up the Earth, let’s think about the ways we can conserve and save these fragile environments from their total destruction in our hands. iso.500px.com »
2019-07-30 22:33
Here’s a new photo that shows Earth and the Moon from a whopping 71 million miles away. It was captured by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, which is currently on a mission to obtain a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and return it to Earth. petapixel.com »
2019-01-17 22:37
Samsung sent four Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones into space on stratospheric balloons in order to capture literal out-of-this-world photos of the western United States. [Read More]
After the media storm that followed the official shooting down of an alleged Chinese spy balloon, the United States Air Force downed three other unidentified objects.
Colorado-based aerial remote imaging company Urban Sky has announced that it has begun commercial operations to provide full-color imagery from its "microballoon" platform that photographs the Earth from the stratosphere. [Read More]
Three photographers recently sent a professional full-frame camera, the Sony a7S III, to near space on a weather balloon and managed to capture groundbreaking “close-up” shots of the Aurora Borealis (the “northern lights”).
In August of 2017, the team at Sent Into Space travelled to Fort Laramie, Wyoming to capture something incredible for the BBC. Using a high-altitude weather balloon and a 360° camera array, they captured what they claim is “the world’s first hyperlapse of an eclipse from the edge of space.” The resulting footage was only […]
Samsung’s ‘SpaceSelfie’ satellite, which was supposed to stay aloft until October 31st, came crashing to Earth this weekend. The device, which was held aloft at 65,000 feet by a massive high-altitude balloon, had to make a “planned” landing on Saturday, only a day after Samsung announced the launch of the campaign. The SpaceSelfie campaign (read: […]