It’s been a conflicting few months on this blue orb of ours, but nothing puts life into perspective like a photo taken by a probe literally millions of miles from home.
OSIRIS-REx, an asteroid-sampling spacecraft, took the photo below as part of an engineering test on January 17 2018.
The spacecraft was moving away from us at around 8.5 km per second (19,000 miles per hour) when it took the photo – snapping a tiny Earth and Moon sitting together 63.6 million kilometres (39.5 million miles) away.
Comments
Post a Comment