[troutman]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

The Earth and its faithful companion, the Moon, as viewed by the Juno spacecraft 6 million miles from home on its way to Jupiter.

http://www.universetoday.com/88524/f...moon-portrait/

http://planetary.org/explore/topics/..._blue_dot.html

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size.

"Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"