"ESA's 2-mm Lens Reveals Stunning Views of Earth"
A miniaturized camera, measuring less than two cubic millimeters in size, aboard ESA's TRISAT-R CubeSat captured a distant image of Earth from a 6,000 km-altitude orbit. The CubeSat, Slovenia's second space mission, is testing radiation-detection payloads and is equipped with tiny cameras with limited radiation resistance. The resulting image of Earth is low resolution, but the mission has successfully captured examples of the "Black Sun effect" and is concluding its commissioning phase after 16 months of successful in-orbit operations.