It’s all…
…in how you look at it:
That’s lil’ ole earth, right above the arrow. Saturn and its rings are at the top-left and top of the photo.
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…in how you look at it:
That’s lil’ ole earth, right above the arrow. Saturn and its rings are at the top-left and top of the photo.
Amazing what a healthy dose of perspective can do.
Wonderful.
We don’t get to look in the sky and see any blue planets. That alone makes it interesting. It reminds me of the Christmas message from the moon (or thereabouts) of Apollo 8.
Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.
A grain of sand in the Sahara. No wonder the aliens haven’t found us
A-Mazing, Neo!! Thanks!!
As the linked article points out, the Messenger spacecraft orbiting Mercury imaged Earth on the same day, and you can also see the Moon in that photo.
APOD has them both.
Death ray incoming from Terrans, shields up.
Umm…it’s not perspective, folks, it’s DISTANCE!
NTL, Saturn is HUGE compared to our little rock. If Saturn was the size of a basketball (10″ diameter), Earth would be about the size of a pingpong ball (0.9″ dia).