Carolyn Porco reimagined the Pale Blue Dot with the Cassini probe in 2013, turning that spacecraft's camera system back towards Earth and capturing the blue pixel under the rings of Saturn.
Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...
But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines to peer back at the vivid blue dot ... beyond Saturn's glorious ...
Saturn’s rings are 169,000 miles in diameter ... and took on iconic status when described by Carl Sagan as a "Pale Blue Dot" and "Earth in a Sunbeam." ...
Instead, they believe that they may have come from a ring around Earth, similar to Saturn’s rings. It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very ...
Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...
A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it and the Sun ... ll much more easily be able to see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The best way to Neptune is to find the time local to ...
Blue Dot: State of the oceans report with NASA oceanographer and climate scientist Josh Willis August 2, 2024 • Host Dave Schlom visits with his good friend, Josh Willis. Josh is an ...
The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...
Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense meteorite bombardment, a new study proposes. Scientists assessed 21 ...