Sometimes these pictures are taken by spacecraft — like the famous pale blue dot photo which was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft — and sometimes they are taken by satellites that orbit the ...

This isn't Cassini's first photo of Earth from Saturn ... Perhaps the most famous of these photos is the "pale blue dot" image taken by Voyager 1 in 1990. That image shows Earth as a tiny fleck ...

The picture, known as the Pale Blue Dot shows Earth within a scattered ray ... day the Earth smiled", the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured Saturn's rings and our planet ...