NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove) 05/10/2017 at 18:13 • Filed to: Spacelopnik

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Takuro Spirit > Chariotoflove 05/10/2017 at 18:25

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Is that Earth? It’s so.... small.

facw > Chariotoflove 05/10/2017 at 18:30

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Another Earth from Cassini:

And the full mosaic of that shot:

And if you get a high enough resolution version of the one you posted you can actually see the Moon to the left of Earth:

Image link because I suspect Kinja won’t let you view at high enough resolution

facw > Takuro Spirit 05/10/2017 at 18:34

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Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

—Carl Sagan

Chariotoflove > facw 05/10/2017 at 20:04

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Yeah I looked at it, although the raw image shows it welll too if you blow it up. Those are all cool!