In 2005, the Deep Impact mission successfully sent an impactor to collide with a comet. The mother ship survived, and in a mission renamed Epoxi, has continued to carry on science. It will fly by the Earth later this month. Learn more about Epoxi

Sent by: Epoxi | From: interplanetary space | Released: July 17, 2008 | Credit: NASA/JPL/Sigma Space Corp/GSFC | Image source
The moon transits the Earth in a series of images taken recently by the Epoxi spacecraft from 31 million miles away in deep space. Viewing the Earth from such large distances provides good practice for [...]