Earth waves to Saturn in cool NASA montage photo

Back on July 19th, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took a picture of Saturn, and happened to catch Earth deliberately photobombing the ringed planet in the background (we're that little blue dot of light in the photo above).

Since we knew we were going to be in the picture, thousands of people who were on the side of the planet facing Saturn at the time got outside so they could be in on the photobomb, and many took pictures of themselves waving. NASA stitched together more than 1,400 of these images, which they received via pretty much every social media source out there, to create this collage:

To see the incredible full-sized version, click here!

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Where were you on July 19th, between 5:27 p.m. and 5:42 p.m., Eastern Time? If you were anywhere in the picture did you look up and wave? I know I did! How many times do you get to be in an interplanetary picture?

(Photos courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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