Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @07:39PM from the we-tread-upon-specks dept.

astroengine writes "Looking back as it zooms through interplanetary space, less than a month into its 445-million mile, five-year journey to the gas giant Jupiter, NASA's spacecraft Juno captured a portrait of the Earth and moon. Juno was 6 million miles away at the time. 'This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too rarely,' said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. 'This view of our planet shows how Earth looks from the outside, illustrating a special perspective of our role and place in the universe. We see a humbling yet beautiful view of ourselves.'"

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Re:Take your humility and suck it by Anonymous Coward · 2011-08-30 21:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It would make me feel special too, if it were the only place life exists. Considering the size of the universe it's very very very likely that we're not the only ones.
Yes, we don't know for sure. I guess it makes us special, in the retarded sense, that we still don't know much about even our neighborhood and are arrogant enough to think lack on knowledge makes us somehow "special".