Almost 40 years to the day after the Apollo 17 crew snapped the famed "blue marble" image of Earth ... of the planet by night. The cloud-free pictures, taken with a high-resolution visible and ...

MIAMI (CNN) - NASA has released the first snapshots of Earth taken with its new highly sensitive satellite which is designed to capture high-resolution images of the planet and help track the ...

The resolution of the images gets higher as the antenna sending out the radio waves gets longer. But it’s impossible to have antennas long enough to yield high-enough-quality images ... bounced off ...