Monday, September 25, 2006

NASA -- Pale Blue Orb

(From NASA.com)

Greetings to Earth from the CASSINI-HUYGENS spacecraft!

As the sun slipped behind Saturn last week, there was a glimpse of something familiar behind the planet's rings --
a pale blue dot that is 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.

The only one other space traveler that has seen Earth from the outer solar system was VOYAGER 1 in 1990.

NASA -- Pale Blue Orb

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