Tuesday, March 20, 2007

From Saturn to Jupiter

Jupiter from SaturnCassini glances away from the Saturnian system to take a picture of Jupiter.

As the JPL Cassini-Huygens page says,Jupiter is imaged here from more than 11 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, or slightly farther than the average Earth-Saturn distance. As demonstrated by [the picture taken in September, see below] Pale Blue Orb, Earth is only about a pixel across when viewed from Saturn by Cassini. (The bulge in the enlargement of Earth is the moon.)

Pale Blue Orb - Earth from Saturn

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