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This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon -- the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -- was recorded...
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded...
art002e014225 (April 6, 2026) – Seen from afar, Earth appears as a small, delicate waning crescent suspended in the...
art002e014066 (April 6, 2026) – The Artemis II crew captures an image of a crescent Earth on their journey around...
art002e015231 (April 6, 2026) – The Artemis II crew captures a faint view of a crescent Earth above the horizon on...
art002e021110 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a...
STS061-56-027 (2-13 Dec 1993) --- This scene, captured with a 35mm camera from inside the Space Shuttle Endeavour,...
art002e009286 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a...
art001e002190 (Dec. 7, 2022) Orion continues its journey home to Earth, which appears here as a crescent, still...
art001e002192 (Dec. 7, 2022) Orion continues its journey home to Earth, which appears here as a crescent, still...
art001e002191 (Dec. 7, 2022) Orion continues its journey home to Earth, which appears here as a crescent, still...
iss073e0118626 (May 25, 2025) --- An external high definition camera adjusted for night sensitivity took this...
Evoking the haunting beauty of Earth Moon, a crescent Enceladus appears in the skies around Saturn in this image...
The dark crescents in this image are the backside of wind blowout features. Blowouts are common on Earth in beach...
This image of the crescent moon was obtained by the Galileo Solid State imaging system on December 8 at 5 a.m. PST...
art002e00444 (April 3, 2026) - An illuminated sliver of Earth set against the blackness of space is seen through the...
art002e004437 (April 3, 2026) - A sliver of Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space in this photo taken...
On Earth, these wind-derived features are called blowouts, where the force of the wind has carved out a...
This crescent view of Earth Moon in infrared, blue-green, and red wavelengths comes from a camera test by NASA Mars...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn moon Rhea at crescent phase, a view never visible from Earth. Near the...
AS14-64-9193 (5 Feb. 1971) --- A close-up view of the forward section of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM) ascent...
Earth observation taken during a night pass by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS)....
art002e016354 (April 8, 2026) The Artemis II crew captures a thin lunar crescent as they travel back to Earth.
art002e020922 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a...