The video was shot from the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket on March 17.
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Capturing 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. The 340-mph return to terra firma destroyed the camera, but the film, contained in a steel cassette, survived. Images from Earth became much more commonplace in the 1960s, when satellites began monitoring our planet from space. 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. The seamless 2002 photo-like mosaic of every square kilometer of Earth was stitched together from four months of observations of the land surface, coastal oceans, sea ice and clouds.
A new version of this image entitled"Blue Marble: the Next Generation" was released by NASA in 2005 and consisted of a full year of monthly observations of our planet, resulting in twice the level of detail of the 2002 image. The majority of data for this updated image was supplied by theToday, images of Earth from space are taken in a wealth of wavelengths of light, by both government-operated and.
Despite this utility in the modern age, footage such as the new Falcon 9 video still inspires awe and reminds us of the beauty and fragility of our blue marble planet.
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