Thursday, July 25, 2013

Kinda puts things in perspective, don't it?

The little blue dot the arrow points to is Earth. Kind of a "you are here" moment.

Taken from the Cassini space probe. This latest photograph, which shows Saturn in all her majesty, actually includes the Earth only as a cosmic afterthought. Of course, our beautiful blue marble is a cosmic afterthought. Heck, Saturn is neither the largest of our planets, nor the farthest from home; those honors belong to Jupiter and Neptune, respectively. Nonetheless, the photograph is as humbling as any image that accurately depicts our infinitesimal smallness against the backdrop of God’s infinite creation.


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