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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Most distant space images ever taken 

The article showcases some of the most distant images of Earth ever taken by NASA's exploration missions. Here's a summary of the images featured:

  1. Earth and the moon floating in space: A view of Earth and the moon from 804,000 miles away, captured by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft en route to the asteroid Bennu.

  2. A dot in the Martian sky: Earth seen from the surface of Mars, captured by NASA's Spirit rover in 2004, marking the first image of Earth taken from the surface of another planet beyond the moon.

  3. Zooming past Earth: Views of Earth and the moon captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter in 2013, beginning from 600,000 miles away.

  4. The vista from glorious Saturn: Earth viewed from NASA's Cassini spacecraft from a distance of just under 900 million miles in 2013, showing Earth shining bright among the stars beyond Saturn's rings.

  5. The view from Mercury: An image of Earth and the moon captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft from 61 million miles away in 2013, while searching for possible small moons around Mercury.

  6. Earth and moon align: A rare view of the dark side of the moon in front of the sunlit Earth, captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite from 1 million miles away in 2015.

  7. The legendary pale blue dot: Perhaps the most iconic image, captured by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of 3.8 billion miles in 1990, showing Earth as a tiny pale blue dot suspended in a sunbeam.

These images offer humbling perspectives of Earth from various vantage points in the solar system, emphasizing its fragility and uniqueness in the vastness of space.

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