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NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
April 20, 2017
A new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows planet Earth as a point
of light between the icy rings of Saturn.
The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017, at 10:41 p.m. PDT
(1:41 a.m. EDT on April 13). Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth when the image was taken. Although far too
small to be visible in the image, the part of Earth facing Cassini at
the time was the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Earth's moon is also visible nearby in a cropped, zoomed-in version of
the image.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the mission for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed, developed
and assembled the Cassini orbiter.
More information about the Cassini mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
News Media Contact
Preston Dyches
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-394-7013
preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov
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