July 22, 2013

Everybody smile!

People were encouraged to look up and smile on July 19th -- the spaceship Cassini was scheduled to take a picture of Earth and our Moon from its location behind the rings of Saturn. Can't quite make out my face... Here is the wide angle -- Earth is the blue dot above the arrow:
cassini_wide.jpg
And here is our closeup:
cassini_EM.jpg
Gorgeous stuff -- much more here:
NASA Cassini Mission Page
Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- Cassini Mission Page
The JPG artifacts -- especially the second photo -- are mine. I compressed the image for bandwidth and storage size. The originals in all their glory can be found at the two links above... Posted by DaveH at July 22, 2013 10:21 PM
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