PALE BLUE DOT: Last Friday, NASA's Cassini spacecraft photographed Earth through the rings of Saturn.

Thanks OP.... very cool pic

5 star

awesome
thanks OP

Now the big Q is who would find that DOT in the middle of nowhere.

It looks like a blue STAR

I was just watching this on Fox. It was cool cause they were playing, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" in the background.

Kind of makes me wonder about other blue stars we see out there.

I can still her in the picture

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I think I can see my house!

saturn worship
he does not always mean who you think
he's got the whole world in his hands.

saturn

Dammit I was blinking!

I don't understand. But I do like that song cause I thought it was about God.

Seeing he Earth that way from such a distance is really cool.

It gives us a new perspective on just how significant (not!) our planet is in the grand scheme of things!

Thanks OP.

it is about god,but some peoples god is saturn.
its all relative.
it is a wonderful photograph.

Ok. Thanks. BTW congrats to your country on the new baby.

The picture the BBC used looks faked to me?

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

I love posts like this!
Keep 'em coming guys and BUMPIN' BUMPIN'

how the hell is the earth so big?

Do you understand what a picture is ?

A picture is captured light, a ccd which does the capturing can be programed to capture light at different wave lengths and intensity. Hence why your camera phone can take pictures at night and during the day.

In this same fashion the picture you quote is the result of certain processes and design of the ccd. Additionally the picture has been processed to remove things like cosmic rays which over load the ccd and the spider vanes which hold up the secondary mirror but can produce a star like effect in a picture.

Its not fake but may not be what you see if you were currently orbiting Saturn just like a picture of Niagara falls may not be what you see when you show up at Niagara falls.

However Saturn exists, we exist, cassini exists and it took a picture of earth while orbiting Saturn, these pictures are an idealized version of what one might be able to observe if they were orbiting Saturn.

Cut the junior B bullshit and educate yourself, the legitimate questions we cannot answer are a billion times more interesting than the shit we make up about already known answers we simply don't like.

I can see myself waving!

wut ?

It's not, it's tiny in the relative sense. Go get a telescope and check out Saturn. You can see alot of cool shit looking at Saturn, the reverse of that Earth from Saturn I imagine would be pretty disappointing because Saturn is alot bigger than the Earth.

We can "see" or detect light from things very very very very far away, much futher than our minds can comprehend. The sky is dark...kind of and a ccd can capture very low amounts of light or photons as they hit the sensor.

saturn's just a dot in our sky and it's fucking huge dimwit

The picture of Earth is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system. "Seeing the whole mosaic of the backlit rings when it is put together will be incredible,"

33 of em huh?
Saturn you say...

Cut the holier than thou bullshit for a moment please. I'm not crying conspiracy here - it just doesn't seem right.

I mean the small picture at the top which shows a clearly defined and well separated earth and moon. How they get that from the main picture we've all seen which shows Saturn in the foreground is what puzzles me. When you zoom in on it you can see a pixelated area around the two dots, just like you can see a pixelated area around the caption overlay.

I investigated it some more and found out more about that picture...

[link to www.jpl.nasa.gov]

So, mystery solved. Prick.

5*

Thanks for posting OP! That has got to be one of the most breathtaking pictures I have ever seen... just awesome.

hmm, i may agree with your post there, in the main, were it not for the fact the two dots SEEM to be shopped.



[link to oi41.tinypic.com]

why are there two boxes around the earth and moon? this tells me something isn't right about all of this.

do it yourself if you don't believe me. definite manipulation, but believe what you want.

nice one.

so much for looking up and waving eh, the amount of chopping and changing they had to do to it.

I don't trust anything from NASA ever since I discovered that the "Moon Landing" was a staged hoax. It never happened. It never will happen.

I like pretty space pictures though, even when they are fake.

Nobody does it better than Hollywood.

Last Edited by Smith_and_Jones on 07/23/2013 02:13 PM