The Day The Earth Smiled

[Retired]

Last week the Cassini spacecraft took a picture of planet Earth while circling planet Saturn.

In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, 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. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself). At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural color mosaic. This is the only wide-angle footprint that has the Earth-moon system in it.

To see yourself in the photo of planet Earth, visit The Day the Earth Smiled | NASA

The photo is downloadable in various formats from the link above.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

It's already being "annotated":