Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite took this picture of earth from 1 million miles away on July 6th.

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That picture is a lot closer than the photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU).
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