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In the shadow of +Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic +Cassini–Huygens spacecraft now orbiting Saturn drifted in giant planet's shadow for about 12 hours in 2006 and looked back toward the eclipsed +Sun. Cassini saw a view unlike any other. First, the night side of Saturn is seen to be partly lit by light reflected from its own majestic ring system. Next, the rings themselves appear dark when silhouetted against Saturn, but quite bright when viewed away from Saturn, slightly scattering sunlight, in this exaggerated color image. Saturn's rings light up so much that new rings were discovered, although they are hard to see in the image. Seen in spectacular detail, however, is Saturn's E ring, the ring created by the newly discovered ice-fountains of the moon Enceladus and the outermost ring visible on this picture.

Far in the distance, at the left, just above the bright main rings, is the almost ignorable pale blue dot

What's that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Earth.

The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn. Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged a faint dot on the right of the above photograph. That dot is expanded on the image inset, where a slight elongation in the direction of Earth's+Moon is visible. Vast water oceans make Earth's reflection of sunlight somewhat blue. Earth is home to over seven billion humans and over one octillion Prochlorococcus.

Image Credit: CICLOPS, JPL, ESA, NASA, Cassini Imaging Team, SSI
Explanation of the image from: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061016.html andhttp://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060927.html

Chasing Summer : Lost in fog - Episode 9

4X Baja champions Kendall Norman and Quinn Cody are now 2,000 miles into their trip through Baja. After waking up in the gorgeous Scorpian Bay with some relaxing stand-up paddle boarding, the boys head through the salt flats to the lush oasis of San Ignacio and then into the deep fog of Guerrero Negro.

Offroad racing of the toughest kind. The Baja 1000 - absolute highlight for rally fans since 1967.

Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος ἡ Ἀπόστολος καὶ Εὐαγγελιστής

St. John the Theologian, the Apostle and Evangelist

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John the Evangelist, the beloved disciple of the Lord, "He epipeson upon the breast of Jesus" , is the one who wrote the Gospel of John, but all three Catholic Epistles that bear his name. The memory of the Apostle John is celebrated on September 26. Today's feast is associated with the emergence of miraculous powder (dust) from the tomb of the Evangelist, in the midst of miraculous action of the Holy Spirit, which the locals called it "earth mother" . John the Evangelist, because, after divine illumination, predicted that it would metastei from this life to eternal and infinite, were received by students and went out from Ephesus. There at one point advised him open grave. Once this happened, came in alive and slept in peace. This tomb now became a source of cure.the congregation of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, eteleito the glorious temple, which is located in place called weeks, today Makrochori Constantinople. For this temple in the seventh, which existed in the late 4th century AD, we know from Socrates on this pedantic. 9 In the centuryThe temple of Theologos was haggard, perhaps because of earthquakes, weather influence and therefore built him a radical Basil of Macedon. Apolytikion. Tone b.Apostle beloved Christ to God, people, deliver accelerated inexcusable; to accept the incident, the epipesonta tῷ katadexamenos chest. Whom pleaded Theologian and persistent cloud nations have fun, and sought us peace, and great mercy. Kontakion equivalent. Tone b.the greatness you the stories Virgin? vryeis agar miracles, remedies and stems, and cherish for your souls, as a theologian and friend of Christ. Magnificat.Stone as the former tῷ Israel, seen of Theologian, the son of thy grave; charitable vryei tῷ kosmῳ agar, as a mother psthchotrofon, heavenly delight, theosdoton powder.