Images of the Earth from a distance of 1, 5 billion. Kilometers Bashny.Net

Color and black and white images of the Earth taken by two interplanetary spacecraft NASA 19 July 2013 showed our planet and moon as bright beacons in space. Cassini received color images of the Earth and the Moon of Saturn from a distance of about 1, 5 billion kilometers. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, made a black and white image from a distance of 98 million kilometers. At the same time look for opportunities to probe the planet's natural satellites.

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On the site you can also see the animation motion of Enceladus in Saturn's rings E, and the polar vortex on Titan.





The pictures Cassini Earth and Moon can be seen not only as a point between the rings of Saturn. It was the first time Cassini's cameras have allowed to consider the Earth and the moon as two separate entities.



Images of the Earth from the outer solar system are rare, because at this distance, the Earth is very close to the sun. Sensitive detector cells can be damaged by direct photography of the sun. Cassini was able to make this picture, because the Sun is temporarily located beyond Saturn, and most of the light was blocked.



Wide angle image of the Earth will be part of multiple images. This mosaic of Saturn's rings, will be available in a few weeks, because of the complexity of the problem associated with the addition of images obtained in a modified geometry and at very different levels of illumination. While it is possible to see only in the amateur handling.



Earth and the Moon: NASA's Cassini image (left) and the spacecraft MESSENGER (right), 19 July 2013. Our planet is visible as a blue dot to the right of the middle; Moon can be considered as weak ledge to the right.



Photo Cassini obtained through weak, diffuse ring of Saturn's E: Earth is visible as a blue point of light to the left; Moon much less white and the right.



The sequence of images of Saturn, a computer model



In addition to the Earth, the spacecraft shot unloaded Saturn's ring E, which was his main scientific mission. Enceladus is the main supplier of the material is unloaded in the ring.



Earth and Moon treated fans RAW picture Cassini. Two long beam, leaving the top and bottom of the Earth, appeared from behind the spreading of charge on the matrix. This effect is known as Blooming. In conventional cameras are antiblumingovye chains that trap the excess electrons will not fit into the hole for photoelectrons in the cell. But spacecraft such a scheme is not applicable and Blooming can be seen on satellite photos and pictures interplanetary probes.

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