Earth from deep space

Quite a sight!

The Japanese get the credit. It's from their Akatsuki probe, which is on its way to orbit around Venus.

This one, on the other hand, is ours, from Voyager I:



...while this one is a joint NASA/ESA production, from the Cassini probe. Earth is the pale blue dot to Saturn's upper left, well to the right of the middle of the picture- the one that makes you want to reach up and brush it off your computer screen. For my money, this is the most amazing of humanity's deep-space self-portraits...



...unless it's this one: a family portrait of the larger members of our solar system, taken by Voyager: