Posted: November 22, 2009 Archived article >>	Photo ID: ISS021-E-11832 Earth Observatory archive >>
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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.

Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 865,945 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.

These images include 404,556 from the International Space Station. These numbers were determined 11/1/2009. See database content summary for more details.

British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle stated, "Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available - once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known - a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose."

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