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Family Photo Snapped by Solar Orbiter Shows Venus, Earth And Mars Gleaming Like Stars – ScienceAlert
Every now and again, we get a little glimpse of just how far human ingenuity has gone.
Every now and again, we get a little glimpse of just how far human ingenuity has gone.
Quite literally: The above image was taken by a spacecraft travelling through the Solar System while it was at a distance of 251 million kilometres (156 million miles) from Earth more than the distance between Earth and the Sun by nearly half again.
It was snapped by NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, a mission to study the Sun, on 18 November 2020, while en route to its destination. It joins…
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