Stunning Cassini mosaic shows the 7 Celestial Bodies at once

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the image from the Cassini spacecraft when photographing the Earth from Saturn on July 19, 2013.

In the photo, Cassini was not only photographing the Earth, but also the seven celestial bodies in the Solar System.

The Cassini spacecraft's onboard cameras acquired a panoramic mosaic of Saturn that allows scientists to see details in the rings as they are backlit by the sun. This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across. (Picture from: http://sains.kompas.com/)

NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
(Picture from: http://airandspace.si.edu/)

In the photo above, we see that most of it is Saturn, the second largest giant gas planets in the Solar System, along with the ring. On the left side and bottom of the two moons of Saturn ie, Enceladus and Tethys. Both seem illuminated by Saturn.

Meanwhile, on the bottom right there is the Earth. Our home planet that looks like a blue dot. At the top right there is another of Saturn's moons, Mimas. As in the top left there is Mars and Venus.

This photo was generated from The Day The Earth Smile project, who led by Carolyn Porco, a NASA's scientists. One of the project's goals is to repeat the success of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, when it taken picture of the Earth from Saturn in 1990, whose produce the legendary photo of the Earth that called "Pale Blue Dot."

Pale Blue Dot: This is you. From six billion km away. (Picture from: http://www.celebrationchurchva.org/)

Photo released by NASA is the result of the processing of 323 images taken of the Cassini spacecraft. As quoted from The Independent on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Porco said, "I hope long into the future, when people look again at this image, they will recall the moment when, as crazy as it might have seemed, they were there, they were aware, and they smiled." *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | KOMPAS | THE INDEPENDENT | EXAMINER] 
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