Earth from a million miles away: Dscovr satellite sends groundbreaking photo

Nasa's new Deep Space Climate Observatory, hanging in gravitational balance between Earth and sun, sends high-quality snapshot that is first of its kind

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A Nasa camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (Dscovr) satellite - hanging in gravitational balance between the Earth and the sun - has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of the planet from one million miles away.

The satellite was launched in February on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and recently reached its planned orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, where Nasa says it will be able to constantly take science-quality images of the entire sunlit face of the Earth.