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The Americas, Photographed From Four Moons Away
NASA's EPIC camera on the NOAA DSCOVR satellite shot the sunlit Earth from about 1.55 million kilometres out; its light took five seconds to arrive.
On air: Hank Ledger on The Weekend ShiftPublished
At a glance
- First reported by NASA: “Earth, Today: the Americas, top to bottom (Thursday, October 15)”, with reporting from Wikipedia.
- Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 9:49 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Hank Ledger.
- Topics: Americas, Earth.
- BBN covered this story before: A Whole Planet, Photographed From Very Far Away (October 16).
The real story
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What BBN said about it
The BBN AnnouncerBehold the Americas, top to bottom, captured by NASA's EPIC camera on Thursday, October fifteenth, at twelve sixteen PM Eastern.
The BBN AnnouncerThe camera floats one point five five million kilometres away, about four Moons out. And the light took five whole seconds to reach it.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the planet had five seconds to fix its hair.
The BBN AnnouncerIt did not, Hank, and we love it anyway, because it is the only planet that has ever carried BBN. 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 · NASA
- The Americas, Photographed From Four Moons Away (this story)
From the archive: everything BBN aired on Saturday, October 17, 2026 · the Weird News archive · all months
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