Earth image from Saturn

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) on July 22 published on its website a picture of Earth from a Cassini probe in the Saturn belt, 1.5 meters from our green planet. billion km.

Earth (the arrow) is taken from 1.5 billion km away

The clear picture of the Earth and the moon was taken from the Cassini ship

Earth photo taken from ship MESSENGER (right) - (Photo: NASA)

The beautiful color photo captured by Cassini on July 19 clearly shows the image of the Earth and its moon floating in space like tiny white and blue.

In addition, NASA also published a photo of Earth on July 19 of MESSENGER, the first probe to Mercury orbit, while 98 million kilometers from the green planet. However, the picture of the ship MESSENGER is only in black and white quality.

According to Linda Spilker, a Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., The image transmitted from Cassini shows us how small the Earth is in a universe. immense cylinder.

But it also shows the amazing ability of humans to be able to send an exploration ship to distant planets like Saturn and from there take photos of Earth, Linda Spilker said.