In message , RSKT
writes
Hi
Just curious. I know the Voyager turned back and took a picture of our solar
system with some planets. That was quite a poor quality one. Recently, they
took one image of earth from mars which looked interesting.A nice blue
crescent. I wonder if I was on mars and has an LX200 10" or Nexstar 9.25,
would the view of earth be breathtaking? I also wonder if the probe around
Saturn ever turned back to take a picture of earth...
anyone knows?
thanks in advance


I think Cassini took some pictures of Earth during its fly-by, but
there's one from Galileo which you can find at
http://jura.astro.utoledo.edu/~karen...res/solarsys/g
alileo_earthmoon.htm and probably elsewhere. And while the Japanese
Nozomi failed at Mars it produced a beautiful Earth-Moon picture which
was Astronomy Picture of the Day September 4, 1998
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980904.html.