This is what the Space Shuttle Endeavour looked like as it left Earth and traveled into orbit:
This is what a typhoon looks like from space:
This is how big Earth is compared to Saturn:
This is what a sunset looks like from space:
This is a picture of Pluto and its moons taken in 2006...
And this is a much, much clearer picture of Pluto taken only a decade later, in 2015:
On Feb. 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II performed the first-ever untethered space walk, and folks, it looks absolutely terrifying:
This is a picture of the ice mountains of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons space probe:
This is what New Zealand looks like from space:
This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:
This is a REAL picture of the moon crossing in front of the Earth:
This is what a solar eclipse looks like from space:
In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon's surface. It's been there ever since:
This picture, taken in 1946, is one of the first images of Earth ever taken from space:
And this is the first picture of Earth from the moon, taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1:
And this is a picture of Earth that was taken 20 minutes before this article was published:
The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:
This is how big the Moon and Pluto's moon Charon are compared to the Earth:
This is what a piece of the moon and a piece of Mars looks like:
This is what color Venus is in real life:
These are two of the earliest known photographs of Saturn and Jupiter, taken in the 19th century:
You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
...well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first "space selfie" while on a spacewalk in 1966:
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Human evolution is reversing. We need the monoliths back on earth.
Warning the Americans to stay away from Europe. Attempt no landings there.
uh, refering to #13
Nice list, Iz.