Cassini's Latest Saturn Gem (with an Earth & Moon cameo)

[Telecaster]

Released last Friday: a photo by the Cassini orbiter, taken from within Saturn's ring system, with our planet showing up as a star-like spec. If you zoom in on the pic you'll be able to see our Moon too, left of Earth and very dim.



NASA's webpage with more info: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21445

-Dave-

[HSakols]

Thanks for the link. I'm signing up to go out there with my photo club next month.  No, but I will show it to my students at school.
Hugh

[Paulo Bizarro]

Amazing.

[Telecaster]

BTW, earlier today Cassini made the first of 22 planned passes between Saturn's innermost rings and the planet's upper atmosphere. If it survives all these passes, in September it'll dive into that atmosphere and burn up. (Cassini is almost out of nuclear fuel, and the folks involved don't want to risk it crashing into and possibly contaminating a moon with a hydrologic system and thus possible oceanic life. Enceladus for example.)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6831

-Dave-