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This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon – the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft – was recorded 18 September 1977, by NASA’s Voyager 1 when it was 11.66 million kilometres from Earth.
This photo was made from three images taken through colour filters, then processed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Because the Earth is many times brighter than the moon, the moon was artificially brightened so that both bodies would show clearly in the prints.
(Image: NASA)
