Orbiter captures Earthrise: On August 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the time, the full resolution of the image was never retrieved from the mission's data but was later restored in 2008.

First color image of Earth: The DODGE satellite captured the first full face color portrait of the Earth from outer space in 1967.

Earth is round: The first image to showcase the Earth's curvature. The picture, taken 21,000 feet above Villa Mercedes, Argentina, showed the Andes Mountains, was published in the May 1931 issue of The National Geographic Magazine.

Galileo snaps Earth: NASA's Galileo spacecraft clicked its first image of Earth from outer space December 11, 1990, showcasing our blue planet from the depths of space.

ATS-1 captures Earth: Shortly after Soviet Molniya clicked the first-full disk photo of Earth, the ATS-1 satellite became the first to capture a similar one from geostationary orbit on December 11, 1966.

First image from Lunar surface: Eight months after Lunar Orbiter had taken the first photo of Earth from lunar orbit, Surveyor 3 On April 30, 1967, took the first-ever picture of Earth from the lunar surface.

First full-disk photo: The first photograph of the full-disk of Earth was taken on May 30, 1966 by the Soviet Molniya 1-3 satellite.