You can clearly see the rings of Saturn. And there, way back there in the background, 1.2 billion km away, as a small blue dot, highlighted by that arrow, is our planet Earth. Your whole life, and mine, and every person whom you’ve ever met, or heard of, or read about, has lived on that little blue dot.
Hii ni picha iliyochukuliwa na satellite ya NASA ya Cassini, wakati ambao satellite hiyo ilikuwa inaizunguka Saturn, ikiwa kilomita 1,200,000,000 mbali na Dunia. Unaweza kuona kwa uwazi pete za Saturn. Na hapo, upande ama ubavu wa nyuma, umbali wa kilomita bilioni 1.2 mbali, kuna mithili ya kidoti kidogo cha bluu, kilichooneshwa na huo mshale, Hiyo ndio sayari yetu ya dunia.