Wave at Saturn: Images from NASA's Cosmic Photo Bomb by Cassini Probe

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Cassini Releases Image of Earth Waving at Saturn

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

From more than 40 countries and 30 U.S. states, people around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission. That event on July 19, 2013, marked the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture as part of a larger mosaic of the Saturn system. Image released Aug. 21, 2013.[Read the Full Story]

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Earth Waving at Saturn Mosaic Detail

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Detail of the Wave at Saturn mosaic shows some of thousands of user-generated photos included. Image released Aug. 21, 2013. [Read the Full Story]

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Cassini Probe Sees Earth from Saturn: Annotated

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

This rare image taken on July 19, 2013, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft has shows Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. At the time, Cassini was 2013 from a distance of about 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself) taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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One Special Day in the Life of Planet Earth – Close-Up

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013. The image has been magnified five times. Taken while performing a large wide-angle mosaic of the entire Saturn ring system, narrow-angle camera images were deliberately inserted into the sequence in order to image Earth and its moon. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Earth and Moon: Views from Saturn & Mercury

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute and NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini probe around Saturn (left) and Messenger spacecraft at Mercury (right) from July 19, 2013. Cassini was 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the time, while Messenger was 61 million miles (98 million km) away. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Earth and Moon Seen by MESSENGER Spacecraft

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

The pair of bright star-like features in the upper panel are not stars at all, but the Earth and Moon. MESSENGER was at a distance of 98 million kilometers (61 million miles) from Earth when this picture was taken. The computer-generated image in the lower left shows how the Earth appeared from Mercury at the time. Much of the Americas, all of Europe and Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia were visible. Data acquired July 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Saturn's Rings With Earth and Moon

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, Cassini's wide angle camera has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Earth and Moon Seen from Saturn

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this rare look at Earth and its moon from Saturn orbit on July 19, 2013 from a distance of about 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers). Earth is the blue point of light on the left; the moon is fainter, white, and on the right. Both are seen here through the faint, diffuse E ring of Saturn. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Two Views of Home

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute and NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini (left) and MESSENGER spacecraft (right) from July 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Cassini Raw Image of Earth and Moon

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

This image was taken on July 19, 2013 and received on Earth July 20, 2013. The camera was pointing toward EARTH at approximately 898,410,414 miles (1,445,851,410 kilometers) away, and the image was taken using the BL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. [Read the Full Story and see More Photos]

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Simulated View of Saturn and Earth Seen by Cassini on July 19, 2013

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This simulated view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth's picture. Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the time. That distance is nearly 10 times the distance from the sun to Earth. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn! NASA's JPL

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft turned its imaging cameras to Earth, scientists, engineers and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., gathered to wave at our robotic photographer in the Saturn system on July 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story]

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Comic-Con Waves at Saturn!

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dressed-up characters and space buffs gathered at San Diego Comic-Con International to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. They celebrated a special opportunity for NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the Saturn system to turn its cameras to image Earth. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn! The NASA Crowd

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

About 200 people gathered on the mall at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. At the time NASA's Cassini spacecraft had turned to take a picture of Earth from its perch in the Saturn system. The Cassini mission gave Earthlings advance notice of its picture, marking the first time people knew in advance that their picture was being taken from interplanetary distances. [Read the Full Story]

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Saturn from Earth: July 19, 2013

Credit: Virtual Telescope Project/Gianluca Masi

This series of images shows Saturn as it appeared from Earth in a telescope based in Italy on July 19, 2013. Astrophyscist Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured these images of Saturn at the same time NASA's Cassini spacecraft orbiting the planet was photographing Earth. [Read the Full Story]

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New Yorkers Wave at Saturn

Credit: Amateur Astronomers Association of New York

Members of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York gathered for a "flash mob" in Columbus Circle to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn from New York

Credit: Amateur Astronomers Association of New York

Amateur astronomers in New York pointed and waved toward Saturn on July 19, 2013 for the Earth portrait being snapped by NASA's Cassini probe. [Read the Full Story]

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The Saturn Wave from NASA's JPL

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft turned its imaging cameras to Earth, some 200 engineers, scientists and visitors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., waved at our robotic photographer in the Saturn system on July 19, 2013. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn: England

Credit: S. White/Eddington Astronomical Society of Kendal

Telescopes, telephone and tablets at the ready, a group of amateur astronomers gathers under twilight skies to wave at Saturn on July 19, 2013. Their gathering in the town of Kendal in England's Cumbria district was one of many international celebrations as Earth was imaged from deep space by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn: Iowa

Credit: SCI

Students and staffers gather outside the Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines. They smile and wave in anticipation of their deep-space portrait session with NASA's Cassini spacecraft during the July 19, 2013, "Wave at Saturn" event. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn: How Earth Will Look

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

North America and part of the Atlantic Ocean are expected to be illuminated when NASA's Cassini spacecraft takes a snapshot of Earth on July 19, 2013. This view is a close-up simulation. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn from L.A.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

From Los Angeles (and western states) wave at Saturn low on the eastern horizon from 2:27 to 2:42 p.m. PDT on July 19, 2013. Saturn’s approximate location is shown, but it will not be not visible in the daylight. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn from L.A. (Night)

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

From Los Angeles (and western states) find the moon, Saturn and Venus in the western-southwestern sky after sunset on July 19th. Saturn appears as a golden “star” brighter than any of the surrounding stars. No telescope required, but the rings and several moons are visible through binoculars or telescopes. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn from Chicago

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This NASA graphic shows the location of Saturn in the daytime sky over Chicago on July 19, 2013, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft snaps a picture of Earth from Saturn. Saturn’s approximate location is shown, but it will not be not visible in the daylight. [Read the Full Story]

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Wave at Saturn from New York City

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This NASA graphic shows the location of Saturn in the daytime sky over New York City on July 19, 2013, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft snaps a picture of Earth from Saturn. Saturn’s approximate location is shown, but it will not be not visible in the daylight. [Read the Full Story]

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Saturn, July 2013

Credit: Starry Night Software

Saturn is high in the western sky at just after sunset, and sets around midnight. [Read the Full Story]

Wave at Saturn: Images from NASA's Cosmic Photo Bomb by Cassini Probe

Cassini Releases Image of Earth Waving at Saturn

Earth Waving at Saturn Mosaic Detail

Cassini Probe Sees Earth from Saturn: Annotated

One Special Day in the Life of Planet Earth – Close-Up

Earth and Moon: Views from Saturn & Mercury

Earth and Moon Seen by MESSENGER Spacecraft

Saturn's Rings With Earth and Moon

Earth and Moon Seen from Saturn

Two Views of Home

Cassini Raw Image of Earth and Moon

Simulated View of Saturn and Earth Seen by Cassini on July 19, 2013

Wave at Saturn! NASA's JPL

Comic-Con Waves at Saturn!

Wave at Saturn! The NASA Crowd

Saturn from Earth: July 19, 2013

New Yorkers Wave at Saturn

Wave at Saturn from New York

The Saturn Wave from NASA's JPL

Wave at Saturn: England

Wave at Saturn: Iowa

Wave at Saturn: How Earth Will Look

Wave at Saturn from L.A.

Wave at Saturn from L.A. (Night)

Wave at Saturn from Chicago

Wave at Saturn from New York City

Saturn, July 2013

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