Astronomy / Space Earth and Moon caught between Saturn's rings in new NASA shot

Manticore · Apr 22, 2017

Cool!

Can't post the images here but very interesting.

Higher resolution images in the article:

http://newatlas.com/earth-in-saturns-rings/49156/

Patrick_68000 · Apr 22, 2017

Yes.

Manticore · Apr 22, 2017

Patrick_68000 said:
Yes. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Earth-at-1-billion-and-400-million-kilometers

Oops! I can see my house from up here!

Sonof Hibachi · Apr 22, 2017

Love this stuff. Not quite the "pale blue dot" but if you want to see how BIG this solar system is...

Manticore · Apr 22, 2017

Sonof Hibachi said:
Love this stuff. Not quite the "pale blue dot" but if you want to see how BIG this solar system is...

Yes; it's pretty hard to go past Carl Sagan's "pale blue dot" image and comment.

Sagan: so much respect and RIP..........