NASA released pictures of the Earth taken from Saturn - Asian Reporter

MOSCOW, July 23 / Asian Reporter /. NASA scientists have obtained new images of Saturn’s rings. With the automatic interplanetary station “Cassini” the researchers photographed the ring at a time when they are located between the satellite and the Sun. It is possible to obtain images of the rings, the sun shines through and through at the same time to take off our planet, along with the moon. About the work performed according to the website NASA.

The pictures “Cassini” our planet and its natural satellite, look like two distinct points of light: the Earth – a large light blue, and the Moon – a small white. And both objects were actually filmed through the rings of Saturn, which gave the pictures quite a fantastic view. Incidentally, the wide angle images were taken as part of an experiment on the compilation of a large panorama of Saturn’s rings.

“Pictures from the” Cassini “remind us that no matter how negligible our home planet compared to the vast expanses of space” – commented on the results of a survey of the participants of the project “Cassini” Linda Spilker.

The pictures Cassini Earth and the Moon looks like tiny dots. In the photo with Messenger celestial bodies appear to be a little more, thanks to a special setting that is applied when shooting.

According to NASA, the first time humans were able to see pictures of the planet made from such great distances. Space Agency offered to people all over the world to participate in the interplanetary “photo shoot”: July 19, when these pictures were made, were wishing to find Saturn in the sky, waving in his direction, and share the photos of the sky over the Internet. It joined the action for more than 20 thousand people.

Station “Cassini” was built by the efforts of NASA, the total cost of the mission of higher than 3.26 billion U.S. dollars.

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