Space News - Earth Photographed from Saturn

I have previously told you about the Cassini probe which is orbiting Saturn right now(link).

In the above photo, taken last month, the Cassini probe looked back at Earth, which appears as a lonely dot in the night. (Click the photo to enlarge)

Not since Voyager 1’s portrait of Earth from Neptune – famously known as the Pale Blue Dot(link) – has our home planet been photographed from the outer Solar System.

Cassini used its wide-angle camera to snap this home portrait while at a distance of about 930 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. The orbiter was looking down on the Atlantis Ocean and the western coast of North Africa at the time this shot was taken on Sept. 15, 2006.

A hint of the Earth’s Moon is visible in a close look at the pale blue orb.