Cassini View Of Saturn And Earth
by Science Source
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Cassini View Of Saturn And Earth
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Science Source
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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. The dark side of Saturn, its bright limb, the main rings, the F ring, and the G and E rings are clearly seen. Earth, which is 898 million miles away in this image, appears as a blue dot at center right; the moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side (an arrow indicates their location). This is only the third time ever that Earth has been imaged from the outer solar system. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 19, 2013 at a distance of approximately 753,000 miles from Saturn, and approximately 898.414 million miles from Earth.
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August 14th, 2014
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