10 Stunning Photos Of Earth From 65 Miles To 100 Million Miles

The study of Earth's atmosphere from higher altitude began in 1946. This is a photo captured on October 24, 1946, from a German V-2 rocket from an altitude of 65 miles. (NASA)

The first satellite photo of Earth was obtained by the Explorer VI in 1959 at an altitude of 17,000 miles. It shows a sun-lit area of the Central Pacific ocean and its cloud cover. (NASA)

This is the first photo of weather systems over the entire Earth. It was created by merging 450 pictures taken by TIROS-9 meteorological satellite on February 13, 1965. (NASA)

Earth's first photo from Moon was taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966. It was built by Boeing to survey smooth surface on the Moon. (NASA)

In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 held a live broadcast from lunar orbit that showed Earth and Moon from their spacecraft. (NASA)

This is the iconic "Blue Marble" photo of the Earth taken by the crew of the last Apollo mission in 1972. (NASA)

In 1992, a "family portrait" of Earth and the Moon captured by Galileo spacecraft from a vantage point about 3.9 million miles away had awed space enthusiasts. (NASA)

Earth and Moon are seen together in this photo clicked from Mercury in 2010. It was taken by the Messenger robotic spacecraft. (NASA)

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) clicked another stunning photo of Earthrise from the lunar surface in 2015. (NASA)

In the same year, the rarely seen "dark side" of the Moon became visible in the photo clicked by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) from 1 million miles away. (NASA)