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The first colour image of the whole Earth was little known because it was taken by DODGE \u2013 for \u2018Department of Defense Gravitational Experiment\u2019 \u2013 the satellite was sent into a near-geostationary orbit in July 1967.<\/p>\n

The hurricane above the gulf of Mexico is the Beulah hurricane. The image was taken with a black an white TV camera which took three photos with a red, green and a blue filter to create the color image. The small ball in front of the picture is a colour match card.<\/p>\n

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Earth by DODGE, 20. September 1967 by Robert Beal of the John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first colour image of the whole Earth was little known because it was taken by DODGE \u2013 for \u2018Department of Defense Gravitational Experiment\u2019 \u2013 the satellite was sent into a near-geostationary orbit in July 1967. The hurricane above the gulf of Mexico is the Beulah hurricane. The image was taken with a black an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-cosmic-view","tag-earth-photos","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmic-watch.com\/cosmicbeta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}