New Year, New Horizon

A space traveler snapped this picture of Earth while looking toward NASA's next objective for human investigation: a re-visitation of the Moon.

 As NASA gets ready for future Artemis missions to the lunar south pole, the organization and its accomplices are additionally praising the twentieth commemoration of constant human presence on the International Space Station (ISS). 

This photograph speaks to another achievement in those projects, as it was taken from the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle in the wake of having undocked from the ISS. It was the last leg of the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, the main human spaceflight from American soil since 2011. The group was watching out over east Kazakhstan on their return flight home following two months on the station. 

This photograph is only one of more than 4,000,000 that space explorers have taken of Earth since the start of NASA's run spaceflight programs. Space explorers will keep on shooting our planet, regardless of whether it be from the low-Earth circle or, as the Apollo space travelers once did, from the Moon. These depictions in time particularly report Earth's always evolving surface. 

Join NASA as we praise the New Year and anticipate what the following 20 years of room investigation and Earth perception may bring. 

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Editorial manager's Note—Learn more about space traveler photography in the three-section Picturing Earth video arrangement: section 1 Astronaut Photography in Focus; section 2 Window on the World; and section 3 Behind the Scenes. 

Space explorer photo ISS063-E-68417 was obtained on August 2, 2020, with a Nikon D5 computerized camera utilizing a 14-millimeter focal point and is given by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Office and the Soil Science and Farther Detecting Unit, Johnson Space Center. The picture was taken by an individual from the Expedition 63 team. The picture has been trimmed and upgraded to improve the difference, and focal point relics have been taken out. The International Space Station Program underpins the research facility as a component of the ISS National Lab to help space travelers take pictures of Earth that will be of the best incentive to researchers and people in general and to make those pictures unreservedly accessible on the Internet. Additional pictures taken by space pioneers and cosmonauts can be seen at the NASA/JSC Portal to Space traveler Photography of Earth.Subtitle by Andrea Meado, Jacobs/JETS Contract at NASA-JSC.