Columbus camera captures first views of Earth

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Image from Columbus laboratorys Earth Viewing Camera -- the first to be produced on command from the ground. The image was taken soon after dawn on March 7 2008 and shows a scattering of white and pink clouds close to the Aleutian Islands in the nort ...
Image from Columbus laboratory's Earth Viewing Camera -- the first to be produced on command from the ground. The image was taken soon after dawn on March 7, 2008, and shows a scattering of white and pink clouds close to the Aleutian Islands in the north Pacific. Credit: ESA/CGS

One of the experiments housed on the European Columbus laboratory’s external platform is an automated eye in the sky known as the Earth Viewing Camera (EVC). Now, after several weeks of troubleshooting by the EVC team in the Netherlands, the first pictures from the orbiting camera have arrived safely back on Earth.


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