The craggy, shadowy foreground opens to show Earth as a blue marble in the distance.
NASA recently released the unique picture of Earth as seen from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
"The spacecraft is almost always busy imaging the lunar surface so only rarely does an opportunity arise such that its camera instrument can capture a view of Earth," according to NASA.
The image is composed from a series of pictures taken by the orbiter's cameras Oct. 12, according to NASA.
"The image is simply stunning," Noah Petro, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a release.
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