1. Photo: Earth, viewed from Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn’s rings and a distant Earth on July 19. This is only the third time Earth has been captured in a photo from the outer solar system. Earth is 898 million miles...

    Photo: Earth, viewed from Saturn.

    NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn’s rings and a distant Earth on July 19. This is only the third time Earth has been captured in a photo from the outer solar system.

    Earth is 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away in this image.

    In a magnified portion of the image, Earth’s Moon is visible as well:

    2. 23 Jul, 2013
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