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Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

This is a classic Illustration of steep cliffs and erosion-resistant outliers formed by wave action on a volcanic land mass. Pola island rises over 400 feet straight out of the ocean off Tutuila. A short walk f... More

Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

This is a classic Illustration of steep cliffs and erosion-resistant outliers formed by wave action on a volcanic land mass. Pola island rises over 400 feet straight out of the ocean off Tutuila. A short walk f... More

Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Vai'ava Strait (Pola Island) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...

This is a classic Illustration of steep cliffs and erosion-resistant outliers formed by wave action on a volcanic land mass. Pola island rises over 400 feet straight out of the ocean off Tutuila. A short walk f... More

This boat with a special receiving was left by scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey in a trip through the Grand Canyon of Colo. in 1923. This set with the oars as an aerial picked up news of the death of Pres. Harding three-quarters of an hour after his death. This was quite some feat considering the set was 3,000 ft. below sea level i.e. not below sea level but below surrounding land mass and 100 degrees in the shade

This boat with a special receiving was left by scientists of the U.S. ...

A man in a suit standing next to a boat, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; ... More

Earth Sky, NASA Gemini program. NASA public domain image colelction.

Earth Sky, NASA Gemini program. NASA public domain image colelction.

S65-63282 (16 Dec. 1965) --- Area of Indian Ocean, just east of the island of Madagascar, as seen from the Gemini-6 spacecraft during its 15th revolution of Earth. Land mass at top of picture is the Malagasy Re... More

GEMINI-9 - EARTH SKY - NORTHWESTERN MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA

GEMINI-9 - EARTH SKY - NORTHWESTERN MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA

S66-38070 (5 June 1966) --- Northwestern Mexico as seen from the Gemini-9A spacecraft during its 32nd revolution of Earth. The large penisula is Baja California. The body of water at lower right is the Pacific ... More

GT-9A - EARTH SKY - SOUTHERN TIP OF RED SEA AREA

GT-9A - EARTH SKY - SOUTHERN TIP OF RED SEA AREA

S66-38423 (6 June 1966) --- The southern tip of the Red Sea area as seen from the Gemini-9A spacecraft during its 43rd revolution of Earth. The Red Sea is at lower left. The Gulf of Aden is in the center of the... More

Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft

Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft

Description: Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. The large, most prominent, land mass is the bulge of west Africa. The portion of Africa near the equator is d... More

Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft

Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft

AS08-16-2588 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from Apollo 8 spacecraft. (Hold picture with Earth at bottom left). The large, most prominent land mass is the bulge ... More

View of Earth taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers

View of Earth taken by Apollo 11 crewmembers

AS11-36-5337 (16 July 1969) --- This view of Earth showing clouds over its surface was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its translunar journey toward the moon. The spacecraft was already about ... More

Photograph of Earth taken from Apollo 13 spacecraft during transearth journey

Photograph of Earth taken from Apollo 13 spacecraft during transearth ...

AS13-60-8588 (17 April 1970) --- This photograph of Earth was taken from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Apollo 13 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home. The most visible lan... More

View of Africa and Madagascar from the Apollo 17 spacecraft

View of Africa and Madagascar from the Apollo 17 spacecraft

AS17-148-22717 (7 Dec. 1972) --- This view of a portion of Earth was taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft following trans-lunar insertion during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo Program. The visi... More

Southern Italy. NASA Skylab space station

Southern Italy. NASA Skylab space station

SL2-05-359 (22 June 1973) --- This rare cloud free view of southern Italy (41.0N, 16.0E) shows almost all of the famous `boot' configuration of the peninsula up to just north of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. The l... More

View of the expended S-IVB second stage of Skylab 3 space vehicle

View of the expended S-IVB second stage of Skylab 3 space vehicle

SL3-114-1625 (July-September 1973) --- An excellent view of the expended S-IVB second stage of the Skylab 3/Saturn 1B space vehicle is seen in this photograph taken from the Skylab 3 Command and Service Module ... More

Southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan

Southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan

SL4-141-4340 (20 Jan. 1974) --- An oblique view of the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan, as photographed from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit by one of the Skylab 4 crewmen. The camer... More

North Atlantic coast of Canada from Skylab

North Atlantic coast of Canada from Skylab

SL4-139-4072 (February 1974) --- A high oblique view of the North Atlantic coast of Canada as seen from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. A Skylab 4 crewman used a hand-held 70mm Hasselblad camera to tak... More

Deployment of the Telstar communications satellite

Deployment of the Telstar communications satellite

41D-37-050 (1 Sept 1984) --- Telstar, the third of three satellites to be placed into space via the Earth-orbiting Discovery, departs from the cargo bay of the manned vehicle during 41-D's third day in space. ... More

S42-86-061 - STS-042 - STS-42 earth observations

S42-86-061 - STS-042 - STS-42 earth observations

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Photographic documentation showing STS-42 earth observations. Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE) STS-42 Date Taken: 1/25/1992 Categories... More

Space Shuttle Endeavor, IAE - Inflatable Antenna Experiment

Space Shuttle Endeavor, IAE - Inflatable Antenna Experiment

STS077-150-129 (20 May 1996) --- Following its deployment from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Spartan 207/Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE) payload is backdropped over the Atlantic Ocean and Hampton Roads, ... More

AS13-60-8588 - Apollo 13 - Apollo 13 Mission image  - View of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico

AS13-60-8588 - Apollo 13 - Apollo 13 Mission image - View of southwes...

The original database describes this as: Description: This photograph of the Earth was taken from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)Apollo 13 spacecraft during its transearth journey ho... More

Aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with a focus on one of the many channels, bays, and straits that surround the city and suburban land mass

Aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with a focus on one of the many ch...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

A view, far north of Seattle, down the Deception Pass, separating Whidbey and Fildago Islands (the latter the larger land mass shown) to tiny Deception Island

A view, far north of Seattle, down the Deception Pass, separating Whid...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with a focus on one of the many channels, bays, and straits that surround the city and suburban land mass

Aerial view of Seattle, Washington, with a focus on one of the many ch...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More