On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings -- and, in the background, our home planet, Earth. With the sun's powerful and potentially damaging rays eclipsed by Saturn itself, Cassini's onboard cameras were able to take advantage of this unique viewing geometry. They acquired a panoramic mosaic of the Saturn system that allows scientists to see details in the ri.
Image: “The Day the Earth Smiled” by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI, licensed Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons.
Credit and licence
- Creator
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
- Licence
- Public domain
- Terms
- Public domain: no known copyright restrictions. Credit given as a courtesy.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- “The Day the Earth Smiled” by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
