Photos of the Earth taken from the perspective of Saturn - SwiatObrazu.pl

NASA has released images of the Earth that July 19, 2013 made a year before the midnight wandering the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn.

Earth Photos were taken a camera with a focal length 2000 mm (NAC – narrow angle camera), where a bright object in the center of the frame is the Earth and darker than the Moon. At the moment of capture Earth at a distance of 1 billion 433 million 827 thousand. kilometers from the Cassini spacecraft.

do not see in this picture or continents, or people. But this little pale blue dot is a concise summary of who we are and who we were July 19, 2013 a year before midnight. Image from Cassini reminds us how small our planet in the vastness of space, but also shows the ingenuity inhabitants of this small planet, who sent automated spacecraft so far from home to observe Saturn and the “look back” to Earth, taking her picture – said Linda Spilker Cassini working on the project.

Fig. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute

Fig. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute

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Fig. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute

Fig. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute