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The Americas, top to bottom, from 1.5 million kilometres

NASA's EPIC camera on the NOAA DSCOVR satellite captured the sunlit Earth from about 1.5 million kilometres away; the Moon was four times closer.

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  1. The BBN AnnouncerBehold the Americas, top to bottom, photographed on Thursday, October twenty-ninth, at twelve sixteen PM Eastern, per NASA.

  2. The BBN AnnouncerThe camera sat one point five million kilometres away, four times farther than the Moon. And the light still made it in five seconds.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the whole planet is a five-second commute.

  4. The BBN AnnouncerIt is home to every one of us, and it looks magnificent from out here. This is BBN.

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