The Pale Blue Dot - Our planet Earth

[VexXx Dogg]

can't wait!!!

[Strugglerzinc]

Updated Pale Blue Dot photo courtesy Cassini

In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and Earth in the same frame.

Full Article

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/23jul_palebluedot/

July 23, 2013:

Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.
Pale Blue Dot (splash)
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and Earth in the same frame.

In the Cassini images Earth and the moon appear as mere dots -- Earth a pale blue and the moon a stark white, visible between Saturn's rings. It was the first time Cassini's highest-resolution camera captured Earth and its moon as two distinct objects.

It also marked the first time people on Earth had advance notice their planet's portrait was being taken from interplanetary distances. NASA invited the public to celebrate by finding Saturn in their part of the sky, waving at the ringed planet and sharing pictures over the Internet. More than 20,000 people around the world participated.
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"We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look-back photo of Earth."

[Mr. Red Sleeper]

The world is too big...

Travel outside of T&T ( Europe, USA, Asia ) and you will realize that WE are so insignificant . Then come back to TT, read newspapers and see how many (not all) Trinis are chasing pure nonsense.
It makes you think if we are really alone ..

This is the most sensible thing that youve ever posted on Tuner.
Congrats. Theres hope within this Pale blue dot.

[stev]

bump for the pale blue dot and the Sagan Series....anyone of u guys following?





http://saganseries.com/

[stev]

updated images from the Cassini Orbiter can be found here:

http://www.space.com/15090-saturn-photo ... craft.html


also, this video contains recreations of actual places in our own tiny solar system:

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Here it is again, Earth as seen from Saturn

[Monkey Man]

all this tralalal, when is the aliens gonna come a blow sheit up