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First image from Saturn showing Earth,
the Moon, Mars and Venus
On 19 Jul 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow,
where it compiled a panoramic mosaic of the planet, seven of its moons
and details of the inner rings. The image was taken 1.4 billion km
(870 million mi) from Earth in a unique viewing geometry that meant
the Sun's potentially damaging rays were eclipsed by Saturn itself.
First high-resolution )
image of a total solar
eclipse from lunar orbit
The Earth looks like a
diamond ring ifl this full
solar eclipse series taken
by Japan's unmanned
Kaguya, aka the SELENE
mission, on 10 Feb 2009.
Largest geological
structure discovered
from space
The "bullseye" of the Richat
Structure in the Sahara desert
of Mauritania was discovered
from orbit by US astronauts Jim
McDivitt and Ed White during the
Gemini IV mission in Jun 1965.
It has a diameter of 50 km (30 mi).
First Earth image
from Martian orbit
On 8 May 2003, NASA's
Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft turned its Mars
Orbiter Camera back to
Earth and captured it from
139 million km (86 million mi)
away. The inset above shows
Earth, with North and South
America visible, and the
Moon. At the bottom of the
main picture (left) is Jupiter.
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