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'Earthrise' — Earth seen rising over the Moon, photographed by astronaut William Anders during Apollo 8 on 24 December 1968.
'The Blue Marble' — a fully illuminated Earth photographed by the crew of Apollo 17 on their way to the Moon in 1972.
'Pale Blue Dot' — Earth as a single pixel, photographed by Voyager 1 from about 6 billion kilometres away in 1990.
Saturn backlit by the Sun, with Earth visible as a distant point of light — Cassini's 'The Day the Earth Smiled'.
The floor of Jezero Crater on Mars, imaged by NASA's Perseverance rover after its 2021 landing.
The layered lower slopes of Mount Sharp in Gale Crater, imaged by NASA's Curiosity rover.
The active Sun in extreme ultraviolet, showing hot plasma tracing magnetic loops above the surface.
The International Space Station in orbit, photographed by a departing crew spacecraft.
The 'Family Portrait' — the first mosaic of the Solar System, taken by Voyager 1 from beyond Neptune in 1990.
Works produced by US federal agencies (NASA, JPL, USNO) are generally not subject to copyright and are free to use. A credit line is still requested and always shown here.
European Hubble image archive; CC BY 4.0.
European Webb image archive; CC BY 4.0.
ESO's public image archive; CC BY 4.0.
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration's released imagery; CC BY 4.0.
US Hubble image archive from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
US ground-based optical/infrared image archive; CC BY 4.0.
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