First Image Of Earth From Outer Space. The combined images created the first color image of the earth from space. Take a trip through the history of earth photography in our gallery from the first.
Over the past 70 years there has been a stunning assortment of images of our home planet taken from space. The first picture of earth from space was taken in 1946 aboard a v 2 rocket but it was grainy and barely recognizable as earth. This photo the first to be taken from 100 miles above earth was.
This is the first photograph of earth ever taken from space.
It was captured on 24 october 1946 from a rocket 105 km above the ground. 1946 first image of earth outer space taken by v 2 no. It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history. The image produced showed south america on the right side of the image with north america towards the upper left.