The Day The Earth Smiled is named for July 19th, 2013, when NASA asked the Cassini space probe to turn around and capture part of Saturn’s rings and planet Earth during a solar eclipse. Much like with the Voyager mission capturing the Pale Blue Dot…
The original title of this was What Does 239,000 Miles Look Like?, but as with just about everything I write, it sort of evolved from being a simple question to wondering about the sheer scale of distances involved in our solar system. It is often…
