There are a couple of mini-satellites headed to Mars right now. They launched with the InSight Lander, and they are basically intended to watch the lander land. And that's it. They're going to do that and then head off into the far reaches of the Solar System.
These satellites, called cubesats or CubeSats, are named MarCO-A and MarCO-B (stands for Mars Cube One A and B, truthfully). Here's more about them.
Now well on their way to Mars, they took a look back in the direction of the Earth and caught two specks of light in the universal darkness. The picture was taken about the time that they set a new distance record for CubeSats operating in space.
Below is the picture; you can read this article for more information about it.
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