Posthuman Blues

Images of Earth from Planetary Spacecraft

The Apollo program produced the first widely publicized views of Earth as a colorful marble floating in black space, images that revolutionized public perception of our fragile planet. Later, Clementine reprised these views. As spacecraft began to launch on journeys to more distant planets, never to return, their mission controllers often commanded them to take departing views of Earth and the Moon.

(Via Beyond the Beyond.)