Back اليوم الذي ابتسمت فيه الأرض Arabic The Day the Earth Smiled German El día que la tierra sonrió Spanish روزی که زمین لبخند زد Persian Le Jour où la Terre a souri French היום בו כדור הארץ חייך HE Dan kada se Zemlja nasmijala Croatian Ụbọchị Ụwa Na-akwa Ịkwa Ịmụ Ị Ịmụ Ị IG Il Giorno in cui la Terra sorrise Italian 地球が微笑んだ日 Japanese

The Day the Earth Smiled

The fully processed composite photograph of Saturn taken by Cassini on July 19, 2013
Earth can be seen as a blue dot underneath the rings of Saturn.
The photomosaic from NASA's "Wave at Saturn" campaign. The collage includes some 1,600 photos taken by members of the public on The Day the Earth Smiled.

The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system, as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots. The spacecraft had twice taken similar photographs (in 2006 and 2012) in its previous nine years in orbit around the planet. The name also refers to the activities associated with the event, as well as to the photographic mosaic created from it.[1]

Conceived by the planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, the imaging team leader for Cassini, the concept called for the people of the world to reflect on their place in the universe, to marvel at life on Earth, and, at the time the pictures were taken, to look up and smile in celebration.[2][3]

The final mosaic captured on July 19, processed at the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS), was released to the public on November 12, 2013.[4][5] The photograph includes Earth, Mars, Venus, and many Saturnian moons.[6] A higher-resolution image, depicting Earth and the Moon as distinct points of light, was taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera and was released shortly afterwards.

  1. ^ "Catalog Page for PIA17171". NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  2. ^ Porco, Carolyn (18 June 2013). "NASA's Cassini Cameras to Provide Breathtaking Image of Earth from Saturn". PBS. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  3. ^ Jones, Jonathan (19 June 2013). "People of Earth, say cheese! Nasa to take everyone's picture from space". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  4. ^ Madrigal, Alexis (12 November 2013). "The Carl Sagan of Our Time Reprises the 'Pale Blue Dot' Photo of Earth". The Atlantic. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  5. ^ Overbye, Dennis (12 November 2013). "The View From Saturn". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference JPLDES was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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