Take a good look at the image above. Did you see that bright spot right there between the rings of Saturn? It's us! Or rather, it is our little planet - viewed from an extraordinary 1.4 billion kilometers away by NASA's Cassini space probe.

According to the space agency, the record was captured on April 12, and from the time it was taken, astronomers calculated that the region of Earth facing Saturn at that time corresponded to the southern ocean. Atlantic.

Incidentally, NASA has also released a larger version of the same image, and in it the moon can be seen to the left of our planet - in the form of an even smaller bright dot. See below:

Did you see the little tank over there? It's her, the moon

If you were curious, the rings that appear in the register are A at the top and F visible at the bottom, and during observation they were backlit, that is, with your back to the light. solar. More precisely, the capture consists of a mosaic of clicked images while Saturn's disk blocked the Sun.

In addition, two famous spaces, Encke and Keeler, can be seen in the register, and both spacings are in ring A. The Keeler is just over 40 kilometers wide and is created by the presence of the Dafne Saturn moon. Already the Encke - much more evident at the top of the image - is about 325 kilometers wide and is the result of the presence of the Pan satellite.

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