EARTH, SEEN FROM OUTER SPACE

This photograph of Earth was taken from a distance of 393,330 miles away on board the European Space Agency's "ROSETTA" spacecraft by the OSIRIS camera.

It is part of a sequence of images taken every hour through one full twenty-four hour rotation.

The illuminated sliver is centered around the South Pole, with South at the bottom of the image.

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