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    The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft...
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    features in the rings of Saturn. Porco was founder of The Day the Earth Smiled. She was also responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the renowned...
    40 KB (4,119 words) - 04:09, 17 July 2024
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    studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August...
    130 KB (12,092 words) - 22:24, 19 August 2024
  • from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved March 27, 2021. "This day in 2013: The Day the Earth Smiled". EarthSky. July 19, 2020. Archived from the original...
    37 KB (1,644 words) - 21:48, 18 August 2024
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    Earthrise (redirect from Earth rise)
    photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission...
    22 KB (2,209 words) - 23:53, 3 August 2024
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    Earth) Planetary phase The Blue Marble The Day the Earth Smiled Gannon, Megan (30 June 2019). "If You're On the Moon, Does the Earth Appear to Go Through...
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    symbol The Day the Earth Smiled Space selfie Whole Earth Catalog, an eclectic catalog compiled by Brand which was inspired in part by photographs of the Earth...
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    Marble The Day the Earth Smiled Timeline of first images of Earth from space "A Pale Blue Dot". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on...
    26 KB (2,804 words) - 03:03, 28 April 2024
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    The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United...
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  • missions. In the 2010s, Republicans in Congress increasingly opposed the Earth science aspects of NASA spending, arguing that spending on Earth science programs...
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    Viking 1 (category August 1975 events in the United States)
    normally. The lander had two means of returning data to Earth: a relay link up to the orbiter and back, and by using a direct link to Earth. The orbiter...
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    goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third US...
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    focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System; advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's...
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  • National Astronaut Day is an American commemorative day held on May 5 since 2017. It commemorates the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5,...
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    Giovanni Domenico Cassini (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    of the Sun's disk projected by the camera obscura effect allowed him to measure the change in diameter of the Sun's disk over the year as the Earth moved...
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  • Thumbnail for Earth in culture
    The cultural perspective on Earth, or the world, varies by society and time period. Religious beliefs often include a creation belief as well as personification...
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    decided the money would be better spent on educational programs instead. The floodlights were repositioned and are kept burning 24 hours a day to illuminate...
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    NASA insignia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    three logos include the NASA insignia (also known as the "meatball"), the NASA logotype (also known as the "worm"), and the NASA seal. The NASA seal was approved...
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    The first U.S. astronaut candidates were selected by NASA in 1959, for its Project Mercury with the objective of orbiting astronauts around the Earth...
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    returning him safely to the Earth." During his administration at NASA, the first seven Apollo missions were flown, highlighted by the first human lunar landing...
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