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

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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@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.

@wonderofscience first captured by Voyager 1 in 1990 at a distance of 6 billion km #CarlSaganWasRight #sagan
@Noctania @wonderofscience I would like to express my wholehearted support for generally repping Voyager I's accomplishments in response to social posts about more recent missions.
@DavidBlue @wonderofscience I only found out about this picture last week in a plea that exploring other planets is no alternative for life on our pale blue dot. It took Voyager 1 36 years to leave our solar system.
@wonderofscience Weโ€™re supposed to believe a cloud phantom is invested in everything on this small speck of dust.

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Great image...

I find it surprisingly big.

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With its ice caps and abundant cloud cover, the Earth reflects a lot of sunlight, making it a very bright celestial object.
@wonderofscience what's that blue light in bottom left, sun?
@wonderofscience If only we could all get this far away from Putin and Trump. Maybe we could stick them on one of Elonโ€™s rocket with him, and we can ship them all off to Saturn!
In Saturn's Rings 8K (Narrated by LeVar Burton) 2018 Trailer

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@wonderofscience mas รฉ bunitinha demais a nossa casa ๐Ÿ˜ป
@wonderofscience Wow I can see my apartment from there! JK, this is really cool, and even up close my apt. is too small to be seen.
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Perspective, if ever there was such a thing.
Adam Freeland - Pale Blue Dot - (an ode to Carl Sagan)

Tracklist: 01. Speaking Minds - The Lost Dramatic Arp / Spoken word by Carl Sagan from 'Cosmos' audiobook 02. Speaking Minds - Amnesia (Clarian Remix) 03. Housemeister - Italodisco 04. Daniel Aver

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@wonderofscience Earth has rings! So coolโ€“ no wait they disappeared... :c
@wonderofscience Another selfie of all mankind, including all known living things
@wonderofscience This is How Humans Came So Far in Science. But What if we didn't have wars, violence, fights, clashes and we were united as Humans, I think Humanity Would be so ahead. We Have Immense Potential But if we don't use in our benefits then it causes our Downfall!

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