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Of course we have the iconic "Earthrise" pictures from the moon, but I thought this picture was impressive for the amount of void pictured and needed annotation:
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This Earth (L) and the Moon (R) pictured by Juno on 26 August from a distance of 9.5 million km.
The departing Juno probe has looked back and pictured Planet Earth.
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All that emptiness, yet it isn't "nothing". Life surely exists elsewhere other than solely on our little mote of dust floating in the void, yet the energy expenditure required to seek them out is almost infinite. Fascinating, and lonely...
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...but this really puts the whole thing into perspective - http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
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Awesome emptiness....but nobody's ever done it better than Carl Sagan.
[flash=640,390:1posltof]http://www.youtube.com/v/2pfwY2TNehw?version=3"[/flash:1posltof]
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