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First satellite image of Earth: The first picture obtained from the Explorer VI satellite in 1959 shows a sun-lighted area of teh Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. First view of Earth ...

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Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after mid-January, the instrument will take the first full images of the magnetic field around Earth, which will help researchers reveal how ...