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Earth from a distance of 34,692 miles
Earth from a distance of 34,692 miles as the Messenger spacecraft slingshots into deep space following its closest approach during a momentum-gathering flyby of the home planet. The Galapagos Islands peep through Pacific clouds. Messenger, August 2, 2005 --- Image by © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Ap/Kinetikon Pictures/Corbis