The first television images of the Earth from the first weather artificial satellite (53 years ago)

Yes, today is clearly a day of retro images. We all already know how our planet looks from space, so to speak, from the outside. But before that, there were only guesses, models, and the same first pictures of the surface of the Earth, taken from space, from orbit, appeared relatively recently. Well, 53 years ago, on April 1, 1960, the first weather artificial satellite of the Earth transmitted the first television images of our planet to the MCC. This satellite was called TIROS-1.

The satellite launch project was carried out jointly by NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. TIROS-1 was equipped with two television cameras that received images, transmitting data to Earth. Here are the first two images transmitted by the satellite, and among scientists now there is a small dispute over which of the photos is really the first.
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It seems that the first photo is still this one:



Of course, the images are not very high-quality, but they also helped to make a giant step in the field of weather prediction, creating climate models and so on.

Via cimss.ssec.wisc.edu