A portrait of Earth and the Moon from 3 million miles away

NASA/Goddard and the University of Arizona also released an image (below) showing the MapCam’s field of view when it snapped the shot. OSIRIS-REx had recently received a big gravity boost from Earth, sending it on its way to the asteroid Bennu, where it will arrive later this year. On October 2nd, it was in the …

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