Earth Waves To Saturn: The Pictures
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, or in this case 1,400 pictures are worth a few words. Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA’s Cassini ‘Wave at Saturn’ event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of [...]
By Caleb A. Scharf
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American
Waving at the universe (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, or in this case 1,400 pictures are worth a few words. Here is the collage of images uploaded by people across the planet for NASA's Cassini 'Wave at Saturn' event on July 19th 2013, while Cassini snapped Earth in turn, as a teeny, tiny dot of light seen from the outer solar system.
Pictures uploaded from across the globe, a moment in time on July 19th 2013 (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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As for the real view from Saturn, the mosaic is still being assembled...
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