Friday, July 26, 2013

NASA Releases Images of Earth by Two Interplanetary Spacecraft

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130722172824.htm