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Post  Flap Zappa Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:20 pm

http://news.sky.com/story/1167605/saturn-nasa-releases-new-image-from-cassini

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sort of puts things into perspective when you see home from a billion miles away.

I am rather surprised it is only the third time it has been photographed from those distances though. I do remember Carl Sagan with the picture taken by voyager I think that was a wide image view of the solar system looking back and the blueish pixel which was earth.
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