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Dear some very-rich person, please send a selfie-camera to the space! Yes, all that effort so we can keep looking at ourselves on a planet scale.

Good news! We already have that! If you pay taxes to the US that's one of the thing you've helped pay for:

For reasons that are unexplainable if you're the NYTimes, polluting industries have been trying to kill these missions for decades.

I'm not a US resident but I'm immensely disappointed in myself because I didn't know this existed.

I guess the rich person who was just planning to respond to my request needs to find another thing to spend their money on :)

It sounds trivial, but perspective shots like this are part of why public support for space programs exists at all