You can see the clouds over the southwest United States as a black and white photo.

It looks like, you know, you’re flying on a rocket and you snapped a picture and you can just sort of see the curvature of the Earth. Tim: So the first image, you know, it’s not good. Nalis: And what did that image look like?

That was the first time that anyone had ever taken a picture from outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. Tim: Well, the first image taken from space was taken in 1946, and it was a modified V2 rocket that the US launched from New Mexico with a bunch of Nazi scientists on hand, and it had a little camera on top and it snapped a picture of the southwest United States. What is the history of Earth observation? Nalis: Can we take a step back and kind of look at how this started? Like when, how long has it been since we, you know, we’ve been able to get images from outside the planet? It is touching on almost every aspect of business and industry and science that takes place on the Earth. Farmers use satellite imagery, archeologists use satellite imagery, climate change regulators use satellite imagery. But now it is used for everything from weather forecasting to navigation to investment. And that’s sort of the beginning of Earth observation because it did emerge from sort of military technology programs. Tim: Well, I know you just said you don’t see a lot of satellite imagery in the news, but I think you might be mistaken, just because if you look at the war in Ukraine right now, a lot of the way people outside of Ukraine have experienced that has been through images taken by commercial satellite companies and governments of Russian troop movements, of bridges that have been destroyed, of cities that have been bombed-all of these things that make up the conflict we can now see from our living rooms, and perhaps more importantly, military planners and intelligence agencies can see and utilize.

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