Just before the swing-by on December 3, 2015, Hayausa2's ONC-W2 camera photographed the Earth.
From left to right shows the time sequence of images taken at (in JST) 0900
(200, 000 km away from the centre of the Earth), 12:00 (150, 000 km away), 14:30 (100,000 km away),
16:00 (72,000 km away), 16:45 (57,000 km away) and 17:45 (36,000 km away).

（©JAXA)

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