The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, capturing views of isolated Earth and the moon floating in space. Some of Hera's instruments — designed to survey the impact site of NASA's successful asteroid-deflection test — snapped the images below.

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid NASA smashed into with its DART mission.

A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft captured the planet and its luminary,