File:The Faces of 'Wave at Saturn'.jpg

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English: This collage includes about 1,600 images submitted by members of the public as part of the NASA Cassini mission's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. On July 19, 2013, Cassini maneuvered into a special location to take a picture of the Saturn system backlit by the sun. Blocking out the sun's rays also enabled Cassini to take a picture of Earth, which would normally require looking almost directly at the sun and risking damage to the cameras' sensitive detectors. The "Wave at Saturn" event was the first to tell earthlings in advance that their picture was being taken from interplanetary distances. This collage uses as a base image the backlit mosaic that was obtained on that same day, July 19, 2013, by the imaging cameras. That version is available at PIA17172.
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Source http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/jpl/pia17679.html#.UoJpLeig5w0
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
Other versions Actual Cassini eclipse mosaic:
PIA17172 Saturn eclipse mosaic bright crop.jpg - full size, brightened, cropped, version (8,400 × 3,500 pixels, 4.49 MB)
The Day the Earth Smiled - PIA17172.jpg - full size, brightened version (9,000 × 3,500 pixels, 4.78 MB)
PIA17172 - The Day the Earth Smiled.jpg - full size, unbrightened, more compressed version (9,000 × 3,500 pixels, 739 KB)
The Day the Earth smiled.jpg - half size, unbrightened, annotated version (4,500 × 1,750 pixels, 1.64 MB)
Saturn-day-earth-smiled-1000x600.png - smaller, brightened, png version (1,000 × 600 pixels, 243 KB)

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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