Why would you want to try to take a photo of the Earth from the edge of space?

Question: Why would you want to try to take a photo of the Earth from the edge of space?
- Keywords:
  benefit,
  edge of space,
  photo
Asked by danm to James_M on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by thupigaa29, xrachelx, tangfastics123.
- James M Monk answered on 14 Jun 2011:
  
  It’s a challenge – why not? How many people do you know who have done that? I’m sure that if someone had run a project at my school to do that I would have been pretty excited about it

Question: Why would you want to try to take a photo of the Earth from the edge of space?