Pictures of the Earth and Moon taken from above the rings of saturn; almost a Billion miles away.

Yep pretty much inconceivable to our minds

That was fun

Oh please, this could be anything how do i know what this is.
Could be anything up there from a distance, you're told it's Earth so you believe it!

Well yes. It's the Cassini Spacecraft!

And how do you know where that is! watching it are you.

You're the confused one. Saturn - Earth or Earth - Saturn the distance is the same. The sizes are absolute - Saturn is 9.5 larger. Hence, the Earth cannot look the same as Saturn and even bigger if looked from Saturn.

Please read what I wrote before making strange remarks.

If Saturn appears to be small when looked from the Earth, how come the Earth appears bigger than that when looked from Saturn. Do you have any common sense?

Thanks CizP.

As someone already pointed out, you cannot be sure that the star on the picture is actually the Earth to begin with. Why do you choose to believe it is? There is nothing impressive about the picture even if it is! Oh, I forgot it is impressive we live on a small dot. So it should be equally impressive when you look at an airplane and it looks small, wow so many people fit in that small object. Basically, now we have to be impressed that something is barely seen. Great thinking!

Last Edited by sorp on 07/22/2013 04:28 AM

You can't be serious......... Do you realize how far away Earth and Saturn are from each other? That's all I will tell you.

Well I can't argue with your opinion if the picture looks nice or not, but it IS indeed Earth and the Moon.

I agree 100%. Most of us will take it at face value and choose to believe that what they are looking at is Earth.

True or false I think you may be missing the point.

You don't look at an airplane and think that you are looking back at yourself floating in the vastness of space.

Do you even understand what you're suggesting? Saturn is 1.2 billion km away from Earth (~ 7 AU).

In the pictures we received from Cassini, the Earth appears to be quite big even though it is 9.5 times smaller than Saturn. However, If you look at Saturn from our planet it would appear smaller than the Earth does in the picture from Saturn. How do you explain that?

The pictures must have been taken through a telescope for the Earth to appear that big from Saturn. It is not a real photo of what the Earth appears from Saturn, but what it appears through the telescope....

Also, since the Cassini telescope has a 19cm aperture, it is totally misleading...as the Earth could look the same if you take a picture of it from Mars but using a different telescope with less magnification.

So I am asking what is the point? You could go to Pluto and use a huge telescope and take a picture of the Earth appearing the same size as now, does it really matter?

Or, even more ridiculous, you can go anywhere near the Earth and use binoculars to zoom out and you can see it like that as well...

Last Edited by sorp on 07/22/2013 08:10 AM

Thanks OP.

I wonder if that camera could focus in a little on Texas?

Ignore him. He's just a troll that believes the Earth is the center of the universe and the Sun is smaller and closer than "THEY" tell us. All of his beliefs come from his inability to understand.

And all your beliefs come from your ability to 'understand' exactly what you're told, i.e. you believe in it 100%. Good job.

Thank you for proving you don't understand anything about pictures, focal length, diffraction, etc. Is this pic of Earth taken with the same focal length as what ever pic of Saturn you are considering (since you didn't bother to even provide a link it could be anything)? Is the Earth reflecting the same amount of light? Only if the answer to both of those were yes would you have a point. They aren't so you don't.

Thanks for proving you didn't understand what I wrote (not that I was talking to you). What I "believe" is completely internally and externally consistent and has science and evidence backing it up hence it is not "belief" it is knowledge as I understand where it comes from, how it is determined, how it fits in with everything else and why it works. There is a saying that if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras, meaning don't automatically assume the craziest possibility. In your case you're way past zebras and looking for wildebeests.

Last Edited by LHP598 on 07/22/2013 09:57 AM

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... pic made me think the same thing! ...
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... loooooong journey ...
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not from directly behind it.

the celestial perfection required for our physical bodies to be possible AND merge w our spirit bodies on this planet... speechless...

lol wow! all of you are so ignorant to the truth that it's actually quite funny at this point. grown-ass infants :P

Why are you assuming the pic is taken from directly behind it? Are you unable to think three dimensionally?

How do you send a picture from billion miles away?

Last Edited by Aye-aye on 07/23/2013 10:04 AM

lol im thinking it's behind it because it IS behind it

So you are unable to think three dimensionally. It would only be behind the Earth if the Earth and Saturn were lined up. At any other orientation some light reflected from the Earth would be visible. The same thing happens with Venus and Mercury when viewing from Earth.