Earth seen from beyond Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 19 2013. That tiny bright dot in the lower right is us 1.4 billion kilometers away. A powerful reminder of how small we are in the vastness of our Solar System.
Earth seen from beyond Saturn by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 19 2013. That tiny bright dot in the lower right is us 1.4 billion kilometers away. A powerful reminder of how small we are in the vastness of our Solar System.
Here is Mimas, Saturn's tiny moon that looks suspiciously like the Death Star.
This stunning image was captured by Cassini on February 13, 2010, showing the massive 139 km Herschel crater dominating its surface.
Did you know?
Earth and Mars have almost identical day lengths! A day on Earth lasts about 23 hours 56 minutes, while on Mars it lasts 24 hours 37 minutes.
It's the planet in the solar system with the closest rotation period to ours!