Astronomy / Space Image of Earth taken from Saturn Orbit

[Majere]

I think this is a beautiful picture...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23419543

 

[Patrick_68000]

And below the image taken from the site of NASA. I do not think we would still be visible from a great distance. It is beautiful.

 

[withnail]

Humbling too.

(OT: but Saturn really matches up with the box cover art from FE2 there).

 

[Sir.Tj]

Posted the below many years ago.

Posted in Science & Math by Greg Ross on December 29th, 2006

Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.

Of the "pale blue dot," astronomer Carl Sagan said, "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."


Makes you think.....

Or..Damn my hyperdrives not been serviced...how do I get home now?

 

[Mobius]

the earth cant be seen to be that big from Saturn's Orbit, or am i wrong on this.

 

[Mobius]

just been reading up on the distance, and it would apprear that in 2002 saturn was a mere 750,000,000 miles away from us, still think the photo of earth has been enhanced.

 

[Cody]

It'll be a composite of several shots, I'd think - a little more info here.
I presume Earth must be at half-phase (or thereabouts).

 

[Mobius]

ah like when you zoom a camera onto the sun setting on the horizon, it will appear bigger than it normaly does.

 

[jan]

in that Picture the true sun is below the horizon, what u see is the reflection in the atmosphere.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Humbling too.

(OT: but Saturn really matches up with the box cover art from FE2 there).

Well seen !

 

[Mobius]

in that Picture the true sun is below the horizon, what u see is the reflection in the atmosphere.

yes most of us know that already, the picture I showed was to show that when you zoom the camera on to a distant object with a horizon it appears bigger.

 

[Thargon]

Humbling and awesome It must have taken a long time to frame this shot - a lot of team work and effort involved.

 

[stephen_usher]

And below the image taken from the site of NASA. I do not think we would still be visible from a great distance. It is beautiful.

I prefer Dr. Paul Abel's version: