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Earth will appear as a small, pale blue dot between the rings of Saturn in the image, which will be part of a mosaic, or multi-image portrait, of the Saturn system Cassini is composing.
was Voyager 1’s “Pale Blue Dot” in 1990; the second was in 2006 when Earth was imaged by Cassini from Saturn’s orbit; and this, the third, was the first time ever that inhabitants of Earth were made aware in advance that their photo would be taken from such a great distance. This image, which has been contrast-enhanced
NASA's Voyager 1 took a classic portrait of Earth from several billion miles away in 1990. Now a class of tiny, boxy spacecraft, known as CubeSats, have just taken their own version of a “pale blue dot” image, capturing Earth and its moon in one shot.
An annotated version of the Saturn system mosaic labels points of interest. Earth is a bright blue dot to the lower right of Saturn. Venus is a bright dot to Saturn’s upper left. Mars also appears, as a faint red dot, above and to the left of Venus. Seven Saturnian moons are visible, including Enceladus on the left side of the image.
Excerpt from NASA's What's Up Podcast:. You don't have to stay up late to see Jupiter, Mars and Saturn this month, because they're all visible soon after sunset. Jupiter is the brightest of the three, visible in the western sky all evening.
What do you get if you mix together one part helium and five-and-a-half parts hydrogen, add a dash of methane, heat to 60 Kelvins (-351 degrees F) and let sit for over four billion years?
Uranus is very bland in appearance most of the time. It's kind of a pale blue planet. It's the real pale blue dot. And part of it is just that it is so cold, and it doesn't have a lot of internal heat. All of our outer planets or giant planets give off more heat than they receive from the Sun except for Uranus.
NASA's Psyche mission to a metal world which will explore a giant metal asteroid known as (16) Psyche just announced it's getting a new, earlier launch date.Psyche is now expected to launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 2022, cruise through the solar system for 3.5 years, and arrive at the Psyche asteroid in 2026, four years earlier than planned.
NASA Spacecraft Reaches Most Distant Target in History. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration from the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins of the solar system.
"Pioneer 11 has had a spectacular life," said project manager Fred Wirth of NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. "It was the second spacecraft to visit Jupiter, roaring through the heart of the planet's huge radiation belts at 107,373 mph, by far the fastest speed ever traveled by a human-made object."