14 DAY TRIAL // We've already had a sneak peek, but NASA has now revealed the official, processed images of Earth as seen by the Cassini probe as it circles around Saturn.
In fact, as a bonus, we've also got a view of our home planet from the opposite angle, as seen by the MESSENGER probe which orbits Mercury.
"NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away," the agency explained.
"MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet," it added.
NASA asked people to wave and smile as Cassini was taking our photo on July 19. Granted, our planet measures only a pixel in the wide angle camera shots and only slightly more in the narrow angle shots.
Cassini was shooting an array of photos which will be stitched together to get a complete view of Saturn, including all of its rings, and, in a rare occasion, with Earth in the background.
