
This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. Because Earth and the Moon are closer to the Sun than Mars, they exhibit phases, just as the Moon, Venus, & Mercury do when viewed from Earth
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NASA ID
PIA04531
Date Created
May 22, 2003
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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