Earth from Mercury

This is a picture taken from the spacecraft messenger as it passed by the sun.

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I think that everyone can agree on the awesomeness of this picture. In the lower left corner you can see the earth and our moon. This was taken from a spot in space where Mercury is a few times a year. So this can be reasonably seen as the view of the earth you would have if you happened to be on mercury. And you were not either frozen or cooked of course.
The coolest thing about this shot I think, is that it shows how from Mercury both the earth and the moon are just seen as little balls of reflected sunlight. Mercury never sees the phases of the moon. And it knows nothing of our large oceans and sweet cloud formations that you see from most pictures of earth taken from space (usually earth orbit). Even within our own little solar system. The earth is a remarkably small and insignificant place.