And the more lonely it seems.
Taken by: Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
Date: 23 January 1998
NASA's asteroid-bound NEAR spacecraft took this two-part image of Earth and the Moon from about 250,000 miles (402,000 km). Antarctica is visible in the south pole.
NEAR eventually reached Asteroid 433 Eros, began orbiting the space rock, and deployed its Shoemaker lander spacecraft in 2001.
Source: NASA APOD
Most images don't accurately portray the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Taken by: Voyager 1
Date: 18 September 1977
Most photos of Earth and the Moon are (artful) cut-and-paste composites, since they are so far away from one another.
However, this is the first photo of both worlds ever taken in a single frame, when Voyager 1 was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million km) away - en route to its 'grand tour' of the solar system.
Source: NASA
Only by traveling hundreds of thousands or millions of miles away, then turning around, can we truly appreciate what the 239,000 miles (385,000 km) between two worlds actually looks like.
Taken by: Mars Express
Date: 3 July 2003
Nearly 5 million miles from Earth and on its way to the Red Planet, the Mars Express spacecraft pointed back home and snapped this photo. The satellite has orbited Mars and photographed its surface in 3D since December 2003.
Source: NASA, ESA
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