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This photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, upper left, a faint pinprick of light may be seen. That tiny dot is Earth (Here's a closer view).
This image is the second ever made of our world from deep space. The first was captured by the Voyager spacecraft in 1990.
The panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165 images made by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on Sept. 15, 2006. The mosaic was acquired as the spacecraft drifted in the darkness of Saturn's shadow for about 12 hours, allowing a multitude of unique observations of the microscopic particles that compose Saturn's faint rings.
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First Published: November 3, 2006, 5:00 a.m.