"Certainly the depiction of the Earth from an unspecified distance and location was very highly practiced in the history of astronomy, stretching back many centuries, but there is very little found for depicting an extraterrestrial prior to 1900--seeing the Earth in the sky with boots-on-the-extraterrestrial-ground is very uncommon. " http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/08/et_skies.html