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- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -0/+29It sucks hard that the pride and joy of human genius and technological accomplishment is at the mercy of budget cuts and lack of funding, while trillions are spent manufacturing instruments capable of sending us back into the stone age.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -1/+25When I was a kid (way back when) I had always hoped it was feasible that Id see planet Earth from another planet, most probably Mars. Space technology has pretty much been coasting since the 70s, so some of these great pics from unmanned spacecraft will have to do.
- mwmccullough, on 02/18/2008, -1/+18Can we stop calling it "Nat Geo" now before it catches on and gets out of hand?
- disabled4diggin, on 02/18/2008, -0/+13So the comment system caused you to copy and paste a comment from 40 minutes ago? Damn they just keep adding more and more features!!
- lcarsdeveloper, on 02/18/2008, -0/+11From the description - "Gallery includes: 1st view of earth from moon (1996)"
Shouldn't that be 1966? - imbatman05, on 02/18/2008, -0/+10You'll need to take a decent telescope on your trip to Mars then...
- troon, on 02/18/2008, -0/+7The Soviets sent a number of landers there, and never get enough publicity for this. See http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm - and look out for the incredible bad luck involving lens caps (several didn't pop off, and one that did landed exactly under where the soil probe touched the "surface"!)
- grungegbunny, on 02/18/2008, -1/+8Imagine: Every war ever fought, every birth, every death, every important piece of history.. Occurred on that dot.
- EpicSelekta, on 02/18/2008, -1/+7Let's stop looking and start colonizing. We have the technology.
Also, where are the pictures of sex in space?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space - EllieElliott, on 02/18/2008, -4/+10the big blue marble
- hexydes, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5These types of pictures are important. Looking at space, getting a perspective of how tiny we as both a species and a planet are, really puts things into perspective. When you see that you are just one person, on one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy, among millions of galaxies, billions of solar systems, and potentially billions to trillions of planets (and who knows, maybe hundreds of trillions+ of "people")...it really makes you wonder if the stupid things we squabble about are really all that important.
- hexydes, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5Probably, considering that after a decade of successfully building a program to go to the moon, we decided it was no longer important to go back for another 40-50 years...
- stavrogin2, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5Beautiful.
- dannyb37, on 02/18/2008, -0/+41280*1024 - wide-screen, eh?
- cos2x, on 02/18/2008, -0/+4Pale Blue Dot should definitely be on the list, but to be honest, the commentary made by Sagan really added a lot of its value.
- jacekpoplawski, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3That picture of blue marble... well... bad framing.
- Godlesswanderer, on 02/18/2008, -3/+6I wasn't aware that anyone had been to Venus, I assumed it was even too hot to land an unmanned craft on the surface.
- diskit, on 02/19/2008, -0/+3The pale blue dot.
- mrhaines, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3Is it just me or has space exploration sort of stalled? It seems like the petty bickering that we seem to get caught up in here on this little blue ball keep distracting us.
- deanoplex, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3First pictures of the surface of Mars were taken from Earth-based telescopes.
- basselope, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2I would vote for Galaxy A1689-zD1, imaged by Hubble/Spitzer through a Gravitational Lensing event, giving us an image of a galaxy estimated at 12.8 Billion light years away.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/02/12/hubb ... - milkmage, on 02/18/2008, -1/+3taken OF the surface means it was taken before or as Viking landed, taken ON means the lander was on the ground when the pic was taken.
- lovedunks, on 02/18/2008, -2/+4http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk
- EdgarCayce, on 02/19/2008, -0/+2We're whalers on the moon.
We carry a harpoon.
There are no whales, so we tell tall tales
and sing this whaling tune. - NotOptium, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2Wait...what?
- Shoebox639, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2awesome, though would have been nice if there was some sort of organization to all the pictures instead of what seemed like random order.
- Bologner, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2"It really does looks like a giant blueberry."
- supermanred, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2It was scary though!
- quomen, on 02/18/2008, -3/+5Ah, stupid comment system. Duped comment on accident.
- ALyken, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1What splendid pictures. A great place to return to.
- deanoplex, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1dugg your link. Great one. I often wondered about the Venus probes. Thanx!
- alexish, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1Amazing...
- sriel, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1Look again, it's picture 3. Most bad ass picture ever btw.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -1/+2
Amazing... - spineaches, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1the mother of digg's daily space photos.
- ayeroxor, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1It's got nothing to do with URL length. If you edit your post, you need to recreate each and every one of your abbreviated URLs. It's an amazing feature of Digg.
- ayeroxor, on 02/19/2008, -0/+1Nevermind, pot-smoking kittie.
- popnwave, on 02/18/2008, -0/+1cool page, i too didn't realize the extent of Soviet exploration of Venus!
- BillDoE, on 02/18/2008, -2/+2"On July 20, 1976, spacecraft Viking 1 captured this, the first photograph ever taken of the surface of Mars."
"Shortly after Viking 1 landed on Mars on July 20, 1976, its Camera 2 captured the first photograph ever taken of the planet’s surface."
Captions from 2 different pictures.Both are first ever. Hmmmm..... - punx777, on 02/18/2008, -1/+1how DARE you.
- mikewalk, on 02/18/2008, -0/+0hmm, digg cutting off links..... well it's my first digg post so what do you expect.
I'll try again with smaller urls...
far side of moon image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luna_3_first_im ...
pale blue dot wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_blue_dot - AmazingPlanet, on 03/09/2008, -0/+0Our small "Blue Marble". What a wonderful planet.Thanks
- RockinRoel, on 02/18/2008, -3/+3It's missing earthrise! It's the famous picture from the Apollo 8 mission that put our life on earth in an entirely different perspective.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8 ... - mikewalk, on 02/18/2008, -2/+1I think they missed some really important ones:
First picture of the far side of the moon taken by Luna 3: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b ...
Carl Sagan's famous 'Pale Blue Dot': http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71 ...
Can anyone think of any more? - takeo1775, on 02/18/2008, -2/+1it must feel so lonely looking at earth from the moon and knowing everyone you love is so far away.
- lovedunks, on 02/18/2008, -2/+1http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk
- lovedunks, on 02/18/2008, -3/+1cool vid about this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jwj0gLriTnk
- clingingboy, on 02/18/2008, -6/+0fasdf
- quomen, on 02/18/2008, -18/+4When I was a kid (way back when) I had always hoped it was feasible that Id see planet Earth from another planet, most probably Mars. Space technology has pretty much been coasting since the 70s, so some of these great pics from unmanned spacecraft will have to do.
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