Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Earth, the little blue dot

NASA captured this amazing image of our blue planet from Saturn with its Cassini spacecraft.


In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself).  At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural colour mosaic.  This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it.
Source: NASA

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