Photo-Op Monday: Space Edition

This post starts the beginning of a new segment I like to call "Photo-Op Monday", for lack of a really great and catchy name. Any suggestions? Anyways, each Monday I will try to post a photo/graphic/image that I find particularly interesting, fun, or thought-provoking. Today's edition is space based, inspired by the lunar eclipse that happened a short while ago.

These pictures are both pictures of Earth, from galaxies away. Let's put things in perspective here...

Picture One: Known as the "Pale Blue Dot," this image was taken on February 14th, 1990 by Voyager 1. Four billion miles away from Earth, it is the longest distance away from Earth that a picture of Earth has been taken.


"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."
-Carl Sagan

Wow. Okay: Picture Number Two: This is a picture of an eclipsed Saturn, taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft. (the sun is behind Saturn). And, if you look in the left upper rings...that's right-it's us! Another "blue dot".

Wow. That's all I can say. God is so much bigger than us. How can we expect to understand Him? Tune in next week, folks, for some more amazing pictures!