FIRST COLOR PHOTO OF EARTH FROM SPACE – THE BERG FILM III
First Color Photo of Earth from Space (Part III):
More Useful Purposes
The story of the first color photographs of the Earth from space continues in Otto Berg’s own words, with light edits and editorial notes.
The next day, I brought the montage (actually, I simply referred to it as a mosaic until Life magazine referred to it as a montage) into the Lab and, again, my colleagues were mostly impressed by the large area of planet Earth shown and the curvature of the horizon.
Detail of the NRL-Berg Mosaic detailing the “discovery” of a tropical storm over Texas and the value of space spaced photography for weather observation
The montage occupied a humble spot on the workbench in our labs for several days as we would briefly discuss it over a cup of coffee. Eventually we began to realize that the huge white cloud glob in the picture was somewhat […]