A grainy, black and white image of space shows the Earth and Moon as a small, double-point of light, as seen from a spacecraft near Mercury. The image is mostly dark space speckled with distant stars. The Earth and its moon appear as two faint, close-together points of light, showing how small they appear from this distance.

Astronomy Picture from 01/09/2010

Earth and Moon from MESSENGER

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100901.html


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