Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie.

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as well as the Earth, while en route to a mysterious asteroid. The image, released Wednesday (Oct. 1), also shows the Chinese flag on the side of the China National Space Administration spacecraft.

Our planet shines in the distance roughly 26.5 million miles (43 million km) away from Tianwen 2. For comparison, the average distance between Earth and the sun is more than three times that: 93 million miles (150 million km).

Tianwen 2 is "functioning normally" and collecting data as expected,, wrote Chinese state media outlet CCTV in an English-language description accompanying the image's release. "The probe has successfully compl

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