A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft captured the planet and its luminary,

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific Ocean, seen from 1.6 million kilometers, or nearly 1 million miles, away. The moon is located some 239,000 miles beyond, and you can see some dark lunar maria — expansive dark plains of dried lava — on the surface.

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid NASA smashed into with its DART mission.