The view from orbiting the Earthįirst, imagine blasting off and being about 200 miles (300 km) above Earth’s surface. Keep reading, and check out the photos on this page, to see how Earth looks from various other places in our own neighborhood of space. Indeed, spacecraft exploring our solar system have given us marvelous views of Earth. To find the answer to these questions, let’s take an imaginary trip through the solar system. What does Earth look like from outer space? And … how far away from Earth can we be and see it still with our own eyes?
Image via ESA/ NASA/ NRL/ Solar Orbiter/ SolOHI. In this image, the sun is located on the right, outside the image frame. That’s in contrast to our sun’s distance from Earth of about 93 million miles (150 million km). This image was captured from about 155.7 million miles (250.6 million km) away. Venus, Earth, and Mars on November 18, 2020, as seen via the NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter ( SolO).
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