cassini

The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will be ending it mission and falling into Saturn on September 15, 2017. Cassini was launched in 1997 and entered the orbit of Saturn in 2004. The Huygens spacecraft separated from it later that year and landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

The photo above is my favorite Cassini image, a view of Earth from beyond Saturn's rings.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

irma

Hurricane Irma from space, September 9:

irma from space

Hurricane Irma from space, 9/7/17:

pale blue dot

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

--Carl Sagan, 'Pale Blue Dot'