40+ Planet Earth From Space Nasa Background. See planet earth from the perspective of nasa's international space station with this live webcam! Earth 101 earth is the only planet known to maintain life.
In 1989, nasa formalized a mission to planet earth, in which examining the third planet from the sun was no longer incidental to its work but central to it.
From the winding branches of the dnieper river in russia to peculiar rock formations in the sahara, nasa's astronomers are perhaps best positioned to photograph the earth. Earth from space, which starts tonight on bbc one, is billed as a new perspective, and it spectacularly delivers. Our home planet earth is a rocky, terrestrial planet. The spacecraft went on to dock with the international space station on monday evening, transporting 4 astronauts.
