A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, nicknamed DSCOVR, has taken its first image of the whole sun-lit side of Earth.
The high-resolution photo from NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), released on Monday (July 20), was taken on July 6 from a distance of 1.6 million kilometres (one million miles.)
It's the first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth at once taken since Apollo 17 astronauts captured the iconic "blue marble" photograph in 1972. Subsequent images released of the whole Earth have mostly been mosaics stitched together with image processing software, NASA says.