The farthest is from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which captured Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. The first photo ... V-2 rocket captured a grainy black and white photo of Earth.

American researchers used the V-2 rocket, fit with scientific instruments, to improve their understanding of the great black ... image of the planet, captured from over 200,000 miles away.

This image is the first full view of the sunlit side of the Earth taken from one million miles away. The turquoise spots you see in the middle are the shallow seas of the Caribbean. The color ...

This breathtaking animation is what Earth looks like from 22,000 miles ... true color images. Himawari-8 can deliver true-colour images every 10 minutes, up from one black and white image an ...

This image is one of the closest acquired during the flyby. A spacecraft has sent back beautiful new close-up images of the planet Mercury from just 125 miles ... capture black-and-white images ...

But in 2013, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space, Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging — captured this image of Earth and the moon from 61 million miles away.

From perceiving Earth as a flat surface to discovering its true shape, close to an oblate spheroid, humans' conception of their home planet's shape and appearance has evolved over centuries.