The spacecraft, Messenger, on its way to Mercury was able to capture a few hundred pictures of the Earth over the course of 24 hours (1 Earth rotation) using its wide-angle camera.
Comprising 358 frames taken over 24 hours, the movie follows Earth through one complete rotation. The spacecraft was 40,761 miles (65,598 kilometers) above South America when the camera started rolling on Aug. 2. It was 270,847 miles (435,885 kilometers) away from Earth – farther than the Moon’s orbit – when it snapped the last image on Aug. 3.
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