A Wondrous New Image of Planet Earth
The Cassini spacecraft gives us a rare glimpse of ourselves from between Saturn's rings.
by Ross Andersen
Apr 21, 2017
1 minute
Nine days ago, a stream of photons exploded off the sun’s corona and flew 93-million miles, to the blue, wave-wrinkled surface of the southern Atlantic ocean. The dark waters swallowed some of these photons, but others ricocheted back into space,, a space probe that has circled the sixth planet since 2004.
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