body { text-align: justify} Day when the darkness came In August 1959, the NASA satellite Explorer 6 was launched. Its purpose was to study Earth’s magnetosphere and follow up on the research the Van Allen radiation belts which was discovered by previous satellite from the programme - Explorer 1. Explorer 6 was the first satellite that captured a crude picture of Earth’s surface, starting a revolution in how we see and percieve the Earth. [Otvori članak]