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The Day Earth Smiled

Charle davers

21 Jul, 2025

https://ift.tt/MYc0TAG On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.

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