![]() When the workshop participants were presented with the picture, they spontaneously began to clap. The workshop brought together scientists from across the country and beyond to talk about how to find life elsewhere in our universe, a central theme in the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. Last September, a portion of Cassini's picture showing Earth was unveiled to an auditorium full of scientists attending the third Pale Blue Dot workshop at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. + Larger view + High resolution JPEG (97Kb) Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute + Full image and caption Image right: Earth, seen as a pale blue dot from Saturn. The first, captured by the Voyager spacecraft in 1990, stunned many people, including the famous astronomer Carl Sagan who called our seemingly miniscule planet a "pale blue dot" and "the only home we've ever known." The image is the second ever taken of our world from deep space. ![]() That tiny dot is Earth bustling with life as we know it. A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. ![]()
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