I have talked about the sky view from other planets / moons in other posts, but nothing has impressed me more than this one below.
This (now iconic) photo here was taken on July 19, 2013 by the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion km) away. And just below the rings there’s our planet, a small – even though luminous – dot among many others.
The full (annotated) picture with the other planets is this one – and it’s somehow special because it was the third time Earth was imaged from the outer solar system – and the first time ever that inhabitants of the planet were made aware in advance that their photo would be take
n. As narrated in the NASA press release, “with both Cassini’s wide-angle and narrow-angle cameras aimed at Saturn, Cassini was able to capture 323 images in just over four hours. This final mosaic uses 141 of those wide-angle images. Images taken using the red, green and blue spectral filters of the wide-angle camera were combined and mosaicked together to create this natural-color view. […] This image spans about 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometres) across. The outermost ring shown here is Saturn’s E ring, the core of which is situated about 149,000 miles (240,000 kilometres) from Saturn. […] Finally, in the lower right of the mosaic, in between the bright blue E ring and the faint but defined G ring, is the pale blue dot of our planet, Earth. Look closely and you can see the moon protruding from the Earth’s lower right. Earth’s twin, Venus, appears as a bright white dot in the upper left quadrant of the mosaic, also between the G and E rings. Mars also appears as a faint red dot embedded in the outer edge of the E ring, above and to the left of Venus.” (The full text is available here).
Finally, for an animated version, watch this video:
http://www.space.com/22066-earth-from-saturn-cassini-takes-our-picture-video.html