NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures image of Earth from 71 million miles away

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which achieved a record orbit at asteroid Bennu earlier this month, has returned an image that, at first glance, is unremarkable. The photo, below, features two bright dots -- the larger one on the right is Bennu, and the smaller one on the left is Earth and the moon as seen from a distance of 114 million kilometers / 71 million miles. The image was captured by OSIRIS-REx's black and white NavCam1 camera on December 19, 2018, according to the Bennu mission website. ...