In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame.
NASA / JPL
The European Space Agency–built Huygens lander hitched a ride on Cassini, detached, and actually touched down on the surface of Titan. This is what it saw: a rocky landscape about a billion miles from Earth.
Even small things are surprising in the Saturn system. Cassini discovered that the small moon Pan has an odd dumpling/pierogi/ravioli/empanada/name-your-favorite-stuffed-dough-treat-shaped moon. Astronomers hadn’t seen a moon with this odd shape before.
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