Sunday, July 21, 2013

Here We Are From Saturn

Hey Space Placers!

Take a look at us in a raw image from almost 900 million miles away:

Earth-moon-Cassini-7-19-2013.jpg


This image is in color and cropped:

Earth-moon-from-Saturn-7-19-2013.jpg


While they may not look like much, you have to remember the distance and the size of the subjects in the camera - Earth and our Moon are not very large.

Pretty amazing that a spacecraft we sent to Saturn takes our picture which is sent such a far distance to be processed and shared worldwide on the Internet.

Our planetary portrait from Mercury should be out soon.

Sky Guy in VA

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