
中文翻譯:
在2013年7月19日,地球被另外兩個太陽系的星球拍攝,這是宇宙中的首次!在左邊的照片中,地球就像一顆淡藍色的小點,位於七個環的下方,這是由機器人太空船Cassini拍的。Cassini當時正繞著遙遠的氣體巨星土星飛行。在同一天,地球上很多人也拍了土星的照片。在右邊的照片中,地球和月球在空星際的黑暗背景下被拍攝,這是由朝向太陽的MESSENGER太空船拍的,當時它正環繞著水星。MESSENGER的照片是為了尋找水星的小衛星,而那時候的月球和地球因為反射的陽光而顯得非常明亮。這兩艘太空船,Cassini和MESSENGER,已經結束了它們探索太陽系的任務,無法回到地球了。
原文:
In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant. On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own pictures of Saturn. On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the sunward MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit. MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the brighter Earth and Moon are both overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight. Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and MESSENGER have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.
來源:NASA每日圖片


