11 photo, shows how small our Earth

Our planet seems huge, but we ourselves feel tiny. But these pictures clearly show how strikingly low Earth. Yet we should cherish and protect our tiny pale blue dot in space, our home and the only home. These photos will allow you to see the Earth in the future.

1. In this photo, taken Cassini spacecraft in 2013, is visible to Earth tiny arrow from a distance of 1, 4 billion kilometrov.

2. In this image, the dimensions are compared in North America and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. As you can see, a giant storm in Yupiterski able to absorb a kontinent.

3. The Rings of Saturn - a beautiful cosmic spectacle, but on Saturn, they look much better than Zemle.

4. The rings of Saturn are so huge that they can put the six planets the size of Earth. These rings are formed of millions of particles of ice about the size of metra.

5. Mars could become a second home for mankind, but it is less than half the size of Earth. North America barely fits in one of the Martian polusfer.

6. The highest volcanic mountain in the solar system - Olympus on Mars. If it is on the ground, it would be completely blocked state Arizona.

7. The moon of Jupiter - Io is the most geologically active object in the solar system with more than 400 active volcanoes. For comparison, in North America about 100 active vulkanov.

8. The moon of Jupiter - Europe 4 times less than the Earth, but scientists believe that it has more water than all the oceans on our planet. Scope of the water from all over the world in Europe would have been 480 kilometers wider than like a sphere with all waters Zemli.

9. Sun contains 99, 86% of the mass of our entire solar system, and is so big that could accommodate 1, 3 million planets Zemlya.

10. But the sun is not as big as our own galaxy - the Milky Way. Look south of the center of our galaxy, and you will see a small dot with the inscription «SUN». That is where our tiny solar system among the other 100 billion stars in our galaxy! 52,648,951

11. This red dot shows the location of our galaxy within a supercluster of galaxies, called laniakea, which means "the vast skies».
Eloquent aphorism astronomer Carl Sagan: "We are like butterflies mayflies, vyporhnuvshim in the world on the day and I believe that this is an eternity" ...



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