Earth glows, even from 1.5 billion kilometers in space. Two NASA interplanetary spacecrafts offered us one black and white and one color photo of Earth from millions of miles away.
Some days back, NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped Earth and its moon from its position somewhere in between the rings of Saturn. The colored picture above shows the rings of Saturn, capturing Saturn's rings and Earth in the same frame.
Below is another black and white photo of our Earth and moon from Saturn's orbit. The photo was taken on 19th July 2013. So, this is how Earth looks for someone on Saturn.
Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker, speaking from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said that there are no individual continents or people seen in this portrait of Earth. “But this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,” she said.
Photo Courtesy: Nasa Science
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