Bruce Murray Space Image Library
Earth as seen from Akatsuki's UV camera
![Earth as seen from Akatsuki's UV camera](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_60_line/20130218_UVI-Firstlight-FOV.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_60_line/20130218_UVI-Firstlight-FOV.jpg 576w)
The photos were taken at around 20:50 on May 21 (I think that is Japan time, so it would be 11:50 UT if that were true). At the time, Akatsuki was about 250,000 kilometers from Earth, which subtended about 3 degres of its field of view.
Here are views from the other two instruments.
![Earth as seen from Akatsuki's IR1 camera](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_82_line/10914/20130218_IR1-FirstLight-FOV.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_82_line/10914/20130218_IR1-FirstLight-FOV.jpg 576w)
![Earth as seen from Akatsuki's LIR camera](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_344x260_crop_center-center_line/20130218_LIR-Firstlight_FOV.png 344w)