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Barry Petchesky, Defector (gift link):

NASA shared another photo Wiseman took, a slice of Earth peeking in the Orion’s window. No human has seen the Earth look this small since 1972. Low-earth orbit, where every single crewed space mission since Apollo has operated, tops out at around 1,000 miles above Earth’s surface. The International Space Station orbits a mere 250 miles up. Orion is currently about 95,000 miles away.

It is a wonderful photograph.