A last view of Earth: ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano snapped this shot of his home planet on his first spacewalk, on 9 July 2013, before returning inside the International Space Station.
Luca and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy had a six-hour excursion when they laid cable routings for the future Russian Nauka laboratory module, installed and replaced communication and heat management systems, and retrieved a camera and experiments for return to Earth.