Sunday, January 11, 2009

Saturn eclipsing the Sun

Never seen anything like this before.
The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other.


And this is cool:
Far in the distance, visible on the image left just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot of Earth.

The full description is available at NASA's Astronomy Pic of the Day site.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is an amazing picture to view, especially how insignificant Earth is!