Earth in Saturn's rings
Saturn's ring system on the new image from Cassini: on the top there is A-Ring and two gaps - Encke and Keeler, named after their discoverers. Bright arc below - F-Ring. And bright point between A and F rings, well, it's our Earth.
Image: JPL/NASA
It is symbolic, that image was taken on April, 12 - the day, when 56 years ago first human went to Earth's orbit.
Earth is imaged from the distance 1,4 billion kilometers. It's not seen, but Earth is turned to us with South Atlantic. Zooming the image we can see another dim point - our Moon.
Image: NASA/JPL
During its 13 years service, Cassini several times imaged Earth and other planets. This is Saturn's neighbour - Uranus.
Image: NASA/JPL
And here we see Venus through the rings
Image:NASA/JPL
Earth again
Image:NASA/JPL
And family portrait: Saturn's moons, Earth, Venus and Mars. Full resolution version is much better
Very nice compilation of images, Thank You!
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