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Image of the Week #106, August 26th, 2013:
From:Earth Waves To Saturn: The Pictures by Caleb A. Scharf at Life, Unbounded.
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA as an organization is positioned to deliver some of the greatest and most inspiring images in human history and they don’t shirk from that duty. Ever since the earthrise from the moon, or since Carl Sagan exhorted the importance of getting that Pale Blue Dot picture taken, NASA has looked for ways to include all of us in space.
In Caleb Scharf’s post Earth Waves To Saturn: The PicturesEarth Waves to Saturn: The Pictures, NASA has not only done it again, they’ve included all of us in the most contemporary crowd-sourced way possible. The result is once again a reflection of our collective potential.