NASA's Cassini beams back stunning pictures of Saturn, Earth

[Jazzy]

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has beamed back spectacular pictures of Saturn, its rings and distant Earth, a "pale blue dot" nearly a billion miles away, as the robot passed behind the ringed planet last Friday.

Cassini snapped the images from a distance of about 898 million miles while the spacecraft was passing behind Saturn, in eclipse and out of the direct glare of the sun.

A series of wide-angle shots will be assembled into a mosaic over the next six weeks or so, showing Saturn and its entire ring system in natural colors, as an astronaut passing behind Saturn might see it.

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Very cool. I can't wait to see the assembled mosaic!

 

[Evil Eye]

Indeed.
Look at how far away the moon is!

 

[Jazzy]

Indeed and Earth looks so very tiny.