On October 24, 1946, American scientists and researchers in New Mexico took the first photographs from space. Soldiers and scientists from the White Sands Missile Range then launched a V-2 missile carrying a 35mm film camera. He took the first photographs of Earth from space.
These photographs were taken at an altitude of 65 miles, just above the accepted beginning of outer space. The film survived the crash landing because it was encased in a steel cassette. This feat was not the first time the Earth shield was seen. In 1935, the Explorer II balloon reached an altitude of 13.7 miles and observed the circular horizon.
The photo was taken by installing a camera on the V-2 missile.
Eleven years later, the V-2 missile reached the vast expanse of space and took the first photographs of Earth. After World War II, the U.S. military fired dozens of captured German V-2 missiles to improve American missile defense. During this period, researchers equipped some missiles with scientific instruments for atmospheric studies.
The Earth looked like a spaceship.
Clyde Halliday, the designer of the camera that took the first photographs from space, also analyzed many of these photographs upon returning to Earth. Where a lot was learned about geology and meteorology through photographs. The first photographs of Earth taken from space in 1950 described what our Earth would look like from a spacecraft to visitors from another planet.
Between 1946 and 1950, more than 1,000 photographs were sent from space, some of which were taken at altitudes of 100 miles. Decades later, the Apollo 8 astronauts captured another famous photograph, showing Earth in the distance against the black background of deep space.
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Even today space photography is an important part of exploration.
After this, photography developed as part of space exploration. Today’s astronauts are not only taught to conduct scientific experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), but they are also trained in photography. You can learn a lot from photographs, not only about other planets, but also about our own.
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important events
The United Nations (UN) was established on October 24, 1945. This is an international organization created to establish peace.
The first official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta (now Calcutta) and Diamond Harbor on 24 October 1851.
On October 24, 2001, NASA’s Mars Odyssey 2001 spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Mars.
Lakshmi Sehgal was born on October 24, 1914. She was a freedom fighter and social worker.
