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#OTD in 1959, Explorer 6 took the first photo of Earth ever taken by a satellite! It transmitted this image of a sunlit portion of the north central Pacific Ocean.

See more of the first photos of Earth from space: https://go.nasa.gov/3DzVhhQ
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Explorer 1 | Image Galleries | Images of Earth from Space

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