Take a look at us in a raw image from almost 900 million miles away:
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This image is in color and cropped:
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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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