The day the Earth smiled

Remember, some months back the Cassini team was getting ready to turn its cameras back upon Saturn to take a mosaic of images that would show Saturn and its rings backlit by the sun? Remember that Earth was going to be in the image and that people were asked to go outside and smile upwards so they could remember the time as a very special image?

After months of work processing the images they are now available for download at http://ciclops.org where it is currently the main-page story.

More description and links to the image pages:
http://www.ciclops.org/view/7699/The-Day-the-Earth-Smiled
The annotated image is especially interesting.
(Unfortunately you can't simply download the images. You need to go to each image's page and save the picture from there, although one advantage of this is that it gives you a chance to give some small feedback by rating the image.)


Our lonely blue dot

The Cassini team also took some special high-resolution images of just Earth. Just try feeling that any "-isms" or that any puffed-up celebrities or politicians are important while looking at this image.
http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=7695

(Crossposted from http://miriam-e.dreamwidth.org/319659.html at my Dreamwidth account. Number of comments there so far: )