The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific Ocean, seen from 1.6 million kilometers, or nearly 1 million miles, away. The moon is located some 239,000 miles beyond, and you can see some dark lunar maria — expansive dark plains of dried lava — on the surface.

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid NASA smashed into with its DART mission.

A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft captured the planet and its luminary,