SpaceX Shares New Full-Shot Video Of Earth Against The Darkness Of Space

Images of our planet are a dime a dozen, with many depicting the expanse and beauty of the world. But a rare few capture the scale of how small Earth is against the infinite vastness of space.
 
SpaceX has done just that with a short video that displays Earth spinning against blackness, conjuring up images of a tiny blue marble.
 
The clip is a detailed look at the home planet with wispy clouds, patches of green land, and the oceans it holds within it.

View from the second stage following last week's launch of SES-18 and SES-19 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit pic.twitter.com/GbSbq6ob2m

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 20, 2023

SpaceX first captured the shot on March 17, taken by its Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to deploy the Northrop Grumman SES-18 and SES-19 satellites.
 
Though pictures of Earth regularly come from the International Space Station, which rests above the planet at 250 miles up, renders sent back from them are usually too close to show the shape of our world.
 
SpaceX’s version heralds back to those taken during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, where the original Blue Marble picture was taken at an altitude of 28,000 miles. And just as that photo gave society a new perspective on our planet, this new video serves as a reminder of how small we are in an ever-expanding universe.
 
 
 
[via DIY Photography and Space.com, image via SpaceX]