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Earth from ATS-3

Earth from ATS-3
Earth from ATS-3 This is one of the first color images of the entire Earth ever captured. NASA’s ATS-3 weather and communications satellite took the image, which shows the western hemisphere, on Nov. 10, 1967. This photo is widely considered to have inspired and motivated environmental movements around the world. NASA