It must have been an experence to go around the earth what did it look like to see our home planet?
Christina Banks South Park Middle School, South Park PA Answer: I’m sorry to say I am not qualified to answer the question of what Earth looked like from space. I haven’t ever flown in space. Nevertheless, I do feel proud to say that I was one of the first people to see some of the images sent back by the Voyager II spacecraft as it flew past Neptune in 1989. It was amazing to think that this beautiful world was doing its own thing in space, and had never been seen by humans up close. Until then, it was only a bright do to us. After the Voyager encounter, we knew there were geysers on Neptune’s moon Triton. We saw broken rings, fainter than Saturn’s, but fascinating in their strange shape. We saw storms on Neptune itself that lasted years, and were roughly the size of the full earth. It was pretty amazing to think of being part of that history in the making. It’s why I still study the planets. It is so exciting to explore not only the earth, but the planets around us. To imagine what i
