The Earth as seen from Cassini 1.5 billion kilometres away in the Saturn system:
Worth remembering Carl Sagan’s words regarding a picture Voyager took of Earth:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Great pic, Shaun. Good to see another Cassini-Huygens fan posting. I often go to the jpl site and am blown away.
Have you been here? Awesome pictures and videos.
Me too, Rob. I’m also very fond of NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day site. Beautiful images, and lots of links to learn more and more and more. Bliss.
Word.
This astonomy pic o’ the day caught my eye this week ..
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html
As real estate agents put it down here in Melbourne: “Deceptively spacious”.
I often gaze at the map of the word, stuck on the wall and think ‘what a dramatic place’, but from this distance, all dramas seem even less than a storm in a teacup.
Thanks for the link Amanda.
Hell of a pic Amanda. Thanks for that one.
And thanks for your link Rob. I haven’t seen some of those pics yet. Awesome images.