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  • NASA's Voyager One spacecraft left our solar system back in 1990.

  • It turned around and took a series of pictures.

  • Take a look at this first ever family portrait, if you will, of our solar system, and right there in the distance that blue pale dot That's Earth, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote.

  • That's here, That's home.

  • That's us on it.

  • Everyone you love everyone.

  • You know, everyone.

  • You ever heard of every human being who ever was lived out.

  • Their lives are geo.

  • Benitez spoke with the astronauts who get to see the Earth from outer space every day, and they tell us it gives them a bit of a different perspective.

  • They're the astronauts who see Planet Earth from the best seat in the universe, the International Space Station, Jessica Mere and Chris Cassidy.

  • They essentially swapped places last week.

  • Cassidy is now in orbit and Mir is back on earth.

  • Arriving just last Friday, she went to space months before the covert 19 pandemic launching in late September.

  • That was what, more than 200 days ago, yes, the world was a very different place than it really was.

  • A stark contrast.

  • We're looking down at the earth, and it looked equally a stunning as it ever did.

  • But we knew what was unfolding down beneath all those clouds and beneath that atmosphere, coming back down to it.

  • It's a whole new world.

  • Everyone's wearing masks and, you know, I'm not even allowed to hug people after being up there for seven months.

  • So, no, I think it actually feels more isolating and confined down here than it does on the space station while in orbit.

  • Mere shared videos like these, hoping they would help people living in isolation, washing her hair in space, exercising and showing us how astronauts prepare meals.

  • Hopefully, people can use some of the same strategies that we use up there sticking to a routine getting exercise.

  • I think it's really important despite how serious the situation is and how tragic it is.

  • We do need to try to maintain some kind of levity in our own lives as well.

  • To, I think, to get through it is human beings.

  • What is your message to people right now who are living through these tough times in isolation?

  • What's your number one tip for them after going through it yourself out their main messages that we're truly all in this together.

  • That is something that is very easy to see when you're on the space station looking down on the planet and you don't see any of those political or draught in boundaries.

  • We as humans are really all in this together, whether it's the fight to maintain planet Earth and as good of a state as we can or if it's this fight against Kobe.

  • 19 in space.

  • Chris Cassidy has just started his third expedition aboard the International Space Station.

  • It turns out astronauts routinely go into quarantine before all launches tow.

  • Avoid getting sick wall in space.

  • You left Earth right in the midst of this pandemic.

  • What was that like for you?

  • We as a crew, we knew we would be on during in quarantine during that period of time.

  • What was surprising to us is the rest of the world joining as well.

  • Right now you're seeing Earth from space.

  • So what are you feeling looking down on the planet?

  • Being up here gives you this really cool perspective.

  • I think about how fast we're going and how big the world is.

  • But yet how?

  • How small and interconnected we all are, particularly in the pandemic.

  • Timeframe.

  • Chris, this isn't your first time in space.

  • What tips can you offer so many Americans right now who are just living in isolation.

  • What works for me, I can tell you, is sticking to a schedule I like toe have some kind of thing to look forward to.

  • Whether it's a walk doing some push ups or sit ups, the heart of the matter for me is sticking to a routine tonight.

  • Two people who've witnessed the beauty of earth from outside the atmosphere and our human potential from the inside share a message of hope.

  • On this Earth Day.

  • So many people are.

  • They're living through tough times, and so they find it perhaps a little hard to even say happy Earth Day.

  • But what is your message to the as good to planet Earth as she has been to us?

  • I think that's really important.

  • And if everybody does their part, then we really can still maintain things for generations to come.

  • If you're listening to this, you're alive and be thankful for being alive.

  • Cherish the time with your family chairs two times with your loved ones because eventually will be back to some new normal and will be longing for the time with our family and our loved ones.

  • Even with so much to discover in a universe filled with so much mystery, these astronauts say love and life matter most.

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  • Benitez for ABC News Live on Planet Earth.

  • Great message there to be thankful for the time with our families and loved ones.

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