NASA just published this remarkable photo captured by its Cassini spacecraft on April 12th, 2017. Shot from 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away, it shows Earth as a bright dot framed by Saturn’s icy rings.
Zooming into the original, high-res version of the photo also shows the Moon as a smaller and dimmer point of light near Earth:
This cropped and zoomed-in version of the photo above shows the Moon next to Earth.NASA says the photo was made while the... more