Earthrise seen by SMART-1, 29 August 2006

This spectacular image sequence of the Earth was captured by the AMIE camera on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, just four days before impact, on 29 August at 21:00 CEST (19:00 UT).

SMART-1's AMIE camera was pointed back towards the Earth to capture, in the best tradition of many previous lunar missions, a view of our home planet. The sequence of images is centred over Brazil at approximately 44.9º West and 19.2º South (North is to the left).