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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.
Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our databasetracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from theInternational Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 1,025,376views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.
These images include 557,616 from the International Space Station.These numbers were determined 9/1/2010. Seedatabase content summary for more details.
British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle stated, "Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available - once thesheer isolation of the Earth becomes known - a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose."
web hits & database photo image downloads in August 2010
