Earth, as seen from the dark side of Saturn, 898 million miles away
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
The Cassini spacecraft took a picture of Earth from the dark side of Saturn on July 19, 2013. The image is called “The Day the Earth Smiled” because of a campaign to have Earthlings smile into the void in unison.
“This could be a day, I thought, when all the inhabitants of Earth, in unison, could issue a full-throated, cosmic shout-out and smile a big one for the cameras from far, far away,” Carolyn Porco, the leader of the Cassini imaging team who conceived of the photo shoot, wrote in June 2013.
