A short video — actually images stitched together and played sequentially — of the planet Earth in 2005, as seen from the NASA spacecraft Messenger, which was departing for its mission to Mercury. In this sequence, Messenger is 40,761 miles away from Earth at its closest point, and 270,487 miles away at its farthest.
Amazing.
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