As NASA’s amazing Cassini spacecraft takes on technological death-defying feats months before it goes into a final plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere, it continues to transmit images back to Earth of things never seen before this close to a giant planet. This week Cassini flew through the relatively short 1,500-mile gap that separates Saturn’s enormously intricate ring system from the top of the planet’s atmosphere, transmitting precious data back to Earthbound scientists. Cassini also this month beamed home ― through Saturn’s icy rings ― a unique image of Earth, 870 million miles away, as seen above. That very tiny dot in space represents everything we are, our continents and oceans ― everything about where we are in the cosmos. And if you need to strain your eyes to see us as well as our moon, here’s a zoomed-in version of Earth with the moon to our left.

 

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