I saw someone point out on reddit that this probably the first digital picture of the whole earth (well, 1 side of it) taken by a person

Apollo used film and it's been a long time since anyone has gone past LEO

Haven't any of the space probes taken such pictures as they left to wander through the solar system?

Yes, if I recall correctly there was a Japanese high-res satellite sent to the moon which took images of earth on the way and then took "high def" images of the moon. That was 2007. So "high def" is like 1080i lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE#/media/File:Earth_at_11...

There something amazing about that. Thanks for pointing it out!

It’s taken by a human on the way to the moon.

That's enough for me. There was also much hype about a new blue marble picture, but I'm ok with that.

This is the night side.

Taken by a different camera, from a different location, at a different time.