Crescent Earth

Crescent Earth from Departing Spacecraft - The Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar System. The Earth is shown as a bright crescent phase featuring the South Pole to the passing rocket ship. — at lmage Credit: ESA/OSIRIS Team/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/NASA - (Nov. '09).