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... of Earth were made on August 14, 1959 by the U.S. Explorer 6.[2][3]
The first satellite photographs of the Moon might have been made on
October 6, 1959 by the Soviet satellite Luna 3, on a mission to photograph
the far side of the Moon. The Blue Marble photograph was taken from
space in 1972, and has become very popular in the media and among the
public. Also in 1972 the United States started the Landsat program, the
largest program for acquisition of imagery of Earth from space. Landsat
Data Continuity Mission, the most recent Landsat satellite, was launched
on 11 February 2013. In 1977, the first real time satellite imagery was
acquired by the United States's KH-11 satellite system.
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