UPDATED! - remember to smile and wave

[DrLeftover]

This favourite 2006 image of Saturn includes Earth as a speck just inside the G-ring at upper-left. In the coming picture, Earth will be lower-right. Dr Porco hopes it will look even better

Nasa's Cassini probe is going to try to take a special picture of Planet Earth.

The spacecraft will include our home world when it makes a giant mosaic of Saturn and its ring system.

In the Friday 19 July portrait, Earth will be almost a billion miles in the distance - a mere pixel in size.

...They could wave, said the researcher from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

"People can celebrate it and join in. This will be like an interplanetary cosmic photo session," she told BBC News.

"People can enjoy the fact that we have a robot out there, a billion miles away, taking our picture. How cool is that?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22963237

 

[Evil Eye]

RE: remember to smile and wave

That far away and still spying on us... Well, I'm sure it'll be a very nice picture.

 

[DrLeftover]

UPDATED - remember to smile and wave

http://www.space.com/22047-earth-moon-photos-from-saturn-mercury.html

"It thrills me no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent," said Dr Porco, from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23419543

 

[DrLeftover]

Another image from Space.com

 

[Evil Eye]

That's a pretty good picture. I was expecting worse, to be honest.