Messenger took our picture
 

From 114 million miles away, see how insignificant we are. The bright spots in lower left of the image are earth and the moon.

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/..._3_stretch.png

coolest pic of the day

Damn bro...when I saw the title of this thread, I was getting ready to uninstall ICQ and MSN Messenger. Thought they were photographing us for the govt. or something. :1orglaugh

Lolz, I thought the same thing, big brother watching me.

Great pic.

Thats crazy!

Funny how we know more about space than our own ocean.

that's a neat picture

that's me in the red shirt and sunglasses

This may really make you wonder...


very cool pic

love it! Its pics like these that send me to spiritual state of mind :-)

I disagree. People are all significant.

I was thinking something similar :1orglaugh

sweet, show us how small are we and how more planet with life are out there

That's some serious witchcraft...

Cool photo.

great photo looks like unreal !

Even from there I can see that Obama is not a muslim. :1orglaugh

Sorry, sorry.

It's a really cool picture! Reminds me of the perspective of horton when he heard a who.

There is someone waving in that picture....

Yes, a super cool example of your tax dollars at work
-- and just think, if there were people aboard, some might be looking at porn right now...

I zoomed in a little and could see my dick

Makes my stomach drop.

I'm curious what the bright oblong thing is at the top just right of center (and the 2 dim ones at the top right too). Everything else in the picture looks round but those 3 things.

gorgeous...

theres a UFOddball up there.... another galaxy?

Yet some idiots on Facebook still think they are so damn important...

Messenger's photo of earth was taken from inside the orbit of Mercury.That is pretty far away, but still fairly close within the inner solar system. If you want to see a truly distant photo of earth, then behold the so called "Pale Blue Dot" taken in 1990 by the Voyager spacecraft from the outer solar system beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, a distance of over 3.7 billion miles away. That little dot is the earth we all live on, there inside the blue circle astride the brown streak that the spacecraft's camera picks up.

Thats why I clicked in :1orglaugh