{"id":269361,"date":"2017-04-21T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=269361"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:42:29","slug":"earth-from-a-billion-miles-away-cassini-captures-mind-blowing-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/earth-from-a-billion-miles-away-cassini-captures-mind-blowing-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth from a billion miles away: Cassini captures mind-blowing image"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Far away from the illusions of borders\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft captured an incredible final image of Earth from a billion miles away during its orbit of Saturn\u2019s rings.<\/p>\n<p>The space probe was facing Earth\u2019s Southern Atlantic Ocean, some 870 million miles (1.4 billion km) away, when the image was captured on April 12,\u00a0says\u00a0Nasa.<\/p>\n<p>In a zoomed-in version of the image, Earth\u2019s moon is also clearly visible, seeming to float alongside our bright planet in the dark vastness of space.<\/p>\n<p>The image marks Cassini\u2019s last view of Earth as the spacecraft prepares to end its mission by dramatically plunging into Saturn\u2019s atmosphere on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>The probe&#8217;s \u2018Grand Finale\u2019 mission begins on Friday when the spacecraft will complete a close flyby of Saturn\u2019s moon, Titan \u2013 passing a mere 600 miles above its surface \u2013 before beginning its final set of 22 orbits between Saturn and its rings.<\/p>\n<p>Cassini, a $3.2 billion mission from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency, launched in 1997 and has delivered unprecedented data of Saturn and its moons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/385597-cassini-earth-saturn-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/385597-cassini-earth-saturn-picture\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Far away from the illusions of borders\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}