Wonder of ScienceJan 28, 2025

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

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View and download the full-size Cassini image here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia17171.html
The Day the Earth Smiled - NASA

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.

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Show threadDerick RethansJan 28, 2025

@wonderofscience The Cassini imaging team has their own site. It has a little more information on "The Day the Earth Smiled" too: https://ciclops.org/index/7787/The-Day-the-Earth-Smiled.html

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CICLOPS - Official Source of Cassini images of Saturn, its rings & moons

Official website of the Cassini Imaging Team and the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), the center of uplink and downlink imaging science operations and where Saturn system images were collected, processed, archived, and posted for the scientific community and the public during Cassini's 20 years in flight. The Imaging Team leader, Carolyn Porco, was the Director of CICLOPS.