Friday, May 18, 2007

Perspective

This is what a solar eclipse looks like when what’s eclipsing the sun is Saturn.

A cracking good image from the Cassini-Huygens mission.

And if you look really closely, there’s a small speck visible through the rings. That’s us.

(Hat tip to Stephen Pinker at Edge.)

1 comment:

jams o donnell said...

Now that is one of those pictures that fuel the imagination.