Space image: Earth and its Moon as seen by Voyager 1
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 07:31
in Astronomy & Space
This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon -- the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft -- was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 2 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.