LESS THAN A PALE BLUE DOT
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Last Wednesday, NASA's Cassini orbiter shot a stunning picture of Earth through Saturn's rings. Falling between ring A (top) and F (bottom), Earth is just a baby speck of light โ€” less than a pale blue dot. Cassini was 870 million miles away from Earth when the picture was taken.

 NASA

In a zoomed in and cropped version of the photo, some blurry pixels to the left of Earth show Earth's moon.

 NASA

<p>Benjamin Goggin is the News Editor at Digg.&nbsp;</p>

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