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View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 3:36 pm
NASA just released this, and I thought it was cool enough to share.
Quote:The Day the Earth Smiled
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. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself). At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural color mosaic. This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassin...e7aN200HRZ
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(The unannotated version can be reached in the link)
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 3:50 pm
How come Earth looks bigger in this shot than Saturn looks to us to our eyes from Earth?
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2013 at 3:52 pm by Faith No More.)
The camera they used is better than our eyes, I suspect.
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Good point.
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Stunning. Man I'm a sucker for everything space.
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Same here. Especially astronomy.
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RE: View of Earth from Saturn
July 23, 2013 at 6:09 pm
NASA's Messenger probe to Mercury is also slated to take a photo showing Earth and moon together, seen from a location near Mercury. It is a part of panarama the probe is scheduled to take in an effort to search for any moons of Mercury that may have have hitherto escaped detection. It will show the sun lit side of earth and moon from much closer than the shot from Saturday. So stay tuned.
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