The first photograph captures Earth from a rocket 70 years ago

The US kidnapped German scientists after World War II to implement this ambitious project.

Today, seeing clear Earth images from satellites is very normal. However 70 years ago, it was a completely different story. This day 70 years ago, the first image of Earth was published after conducting a scientific experiment "to eat, fall to zero".

The photo was taken October 24, 1946 by a camera on a rocket launched from the White Sands Missile military base in New Mexico, USA.

The first photo captures part of the Earth from a height of 104km.

The United States has arrested a group of German Nazi rocket scientists after World War II to serve this project. They used the German V-2 rocket , mounted it on the Devry 35 camera and recorded an impressive image of the Earth.

The camera is mounted in a steel box to protect it from friction with the air. The rocket launched into the sky at a speed of 150m / sec.

This is a very reckless experiment and, fortunately, the results exceeded the expectations of scientists. When the film roll was collected and intact, the first picture of Earth was published two days later.

"Scientists jump like kids," said Fred Rulli, a participant in the restoration of cameras mounted on rockets. "When the first photo was shown on the screen, they were crazy."

The black-and-white picture taken at a height of 104km shows part of the curve of the Earth and a cloud of cloud covering the southwestern United States. The missile used is the V-2 line researched by Nazi Germany.

V-2 missiles add cameras to capture the Earth, launching into space in 1946.

The V-2 rocket was launched for the first time in 1944 and then Hitler demanded thousands of hits to attack targets in London, Antwerp and Liège. This was considered the final offensive of Hitler before World War II ended.

After losing the battle, German rocket scientists were secretly brought to the United States and worked in the US Army's space program. They studied the possibility of using V-2 missiles to explore the universe and strengthen defense capabilities. The first photo taken of the world was born for that reason.

Shooting technology from space then developed leaps and bounds and made great strides. In February 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the first Earth image from Neptune.