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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuccinct Summary of Who We Were on July 19
Via NASA: "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."
On July 19, NASAs Cassini spacecraft captured this inspirational, fragile view of the Earth just a faint speck 900 million miles in the distance cast beneath Saturns imposing rings.
This pale blue dot sequel comes over 20 years after the original taken in 1990 from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, some 3.7 billion miles from Earth.
We cant see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19, said NASAs Linda Spilker, a project scientist for the Cassini mission.
article/pics: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/07/23/view-of-the-earth-from-saturn-pale-blue-dot-reprise/
related:
particularly beautiful and humbling, Andrew Revkin, New York Times
I think this truly is a wow moment, Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine
nothing short of stunning, Phil Plait, Bad Astronomer, Slate
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Succinct Summary of Who We Were on July 19 (Original Post)
bigtree
Jul 2013
OP
Should we start worrying about that giant arrow-shaped object getting so close to us?
Gidney N Cloyd
Jul 2013
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)1. Should we start worrying about that giant arrow-shaped object getting so close to us?
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,683 posts)2. And off to the Greatest Page for this important story!
FSogol
(45,524 posts)3. Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, & revolving at nine hundred miles...
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)4. I think I see my house!!