September 25, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Cassini’s Final Full Image of Saturn
This will be our last close-up image of Saturn for a long time
This will be our last close-up image of Saturn for a long time
After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is nearing the end of its remarkable journey of exploration
Little Planet Factory has created a 3D-printed, 1:1.5 billion scale model of our Solar System
Since 1972, NASA’s iconic “Blue Marbles” have inspired and captured our collective imaginations
Views from the final frontier
Every 2 hours, NASA’s EPIC camera takes a photo of Earth from the same spot in space, about a million miles away
The polar stereographic projection by NASA shows the south pole in the center of the map and the equator at the edge
Mercury is roughly 1/3 the size of Earth and you can fit about 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun…
The water-world Enceladus appears here to sit atop Saturn’s rings like a drop of dew upon a leaf
Incredible when you think how far from Earth this picture was taken from.
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