BepiColombo spacecraft sees Earth from over 1 million kilometers away

The first image in this sequence was captured on April 13, 1.3 million km away (807,782 mi.), and the last image was taken on May 5, about 8 million km away (4,970,969 mi.). BepiColombo was launched on a 7-year journey to Mercury in October 2018. - What a view! Mercury probe snaps stunning photos of our planet during Earth flyby: https://www.space.com/mercury-bepicolombo-stunning-earth-flyby-photos.html

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO / mash mix by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta](http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta)