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A Whole Planet, Photographed From Very Far Away
NASA's EPIC camera on the NOAA DSCOVR satellite captured the full sunlit Earth from about four times the Moon's distance; the beans remain unaccounted for.
On air: Hank Ledger on Late Night BBNPublished
At a glance
- First reported by NASA: “Earth, Today: the Americas, top to bottom (Wednesday, October 14)”, with reporting from Wikipedia.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 10:18 PM ET on Late Night BBN, by Hank Ledger.
- Topics: Americas, Earth.
- BBN covered this story before: Earliest pet dogs in the Americas may have lived at Alaska site (October 16).
The real story
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What BBN said about it
The BBN AnnouncerThere she is. The whole sunlit Earth, the Americas top to bottom, caught at 12:25 PM Eastern on Wednesday, October 14.
The BBN AnnouncerPer NASA, the camera sat one point five five million kilometres away. About four times farther than the Moon.
The BBN AnnouncerAnd her light still made it in five seconds.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy bunker is in that picture. Under a cloud, with the beans.
The BBN AnnouncerHank, that is the most beautiful sentence anyone has said about her. This is BBN.
The story so far
- Vikings reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus · BBC
- Vietnamese sequel 'Sister Sister 3' lands at 3388 Films · Variety
- Music Industry Moves: Mohnish Sani Joins Hybe Americas · Variety
- Donor sues Guilfoyle, threatens Trump dirt over extradition · New York Post
- Earliest pet dogs in the Americas may have lived at Alaska site · Live Science
- A Whole Planet, Photographed From Very Far Away (this story)
From the archive: everything BBN aired on Friday, October 16, 2026 · the Weird News archive · all months
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