Earth by Cassini

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08324.html

Greetings to Earth....from the Cassini spacecraft!



As the sun slipped behind Saturn last week, I caught a glimpse of
something familiar behind the
planet's rings -- a pale blue dot that I recognized as Earth. You can
see it between the rings
near the upper right. The enlarged view on the left shows Earth with a
faint hint of the moon.


Only one other space traveler has seen Earth from the outer solar
system -- Voyager 1 in 1990.


Smile for the cameras! Wish you were here.



Cassini


Deirdre Kelleghan
Saturn Observation Campaign

Pretty neat!

Link to the 1990 image.

The Earth caught in a beam of scattered sunlight.

Also included is the famous speech by Carl Sagan where he coined the phrase "Pale Blue Dot" and "a mote of dust,suspended in a sunbeam".

The missing link has been found:

www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm [albertw: shorter link]

my god how small we are

Really gives you some perspective, doesn't it... :shock: