Earth, Saturn, and Mercury Seen In Incredible Interplanetary Photobomb Shot Released By NASA- 20,000 People Waved Worldwide As Photo Taken

Earth, Saturn and Mercury can all be seen in one incredible image NASA just released.

The new photos show Earth and its moon from billions of miles away in images taken on Friday (July 19). It was the first interplanetary photobomb, featuring Earth, Saturn and Mercury.

The pics were snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn and its Messenger probe at Mercury.

The Saturn photos show Earth as a tiny pinprick of light in the background, and in the foreground are the rings of Saturn. The photo was taken via a plan to take photos of Earth from deep space-and have over 20,000 people wave.

Even the camera-shy were featured in the portrait. Cassini is a whopping 898 million miles away. Earth will only be a bit more than a pixel...but NASA's called for everyone to look at the sky at that exact moment the photo was taken and wave.

The photo also capitalized on a total eclipse of the sun from Saturn, which is extremely rare. Thus, Cassini's cameras could look at the Earth without being damged by the Sun's light. From Saturn, the sun looks very close to Earth.

The photo mostly focused on Saturn and Saturn's bling rings-so Earth wasn't the only star (or sun) of the show).

The total eclipse of the sun made for some sexy backlighting on Saturn.

The Moon is even visible in the photobomb shoot.

Carolyn Porco from NASA, who has been working on the shoot, called the event "a full-throated, cosmic shout-out."

"We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19," Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement. "Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look-back photo of Earth."

In the Messenger portrait, taken from orbit around Mercury, the Moon and its Earth were both visible...but only as tiny points of light. The pic was snapped from 61 million miles away.

This was only the third  and fourth time a pic has been snapped of Earth from the outer solar system. 

Much in the way that it is difficult to snap photos of Lindsay Lohan from the bushes of her rehab center but easy to snap them when she is stumbling around Manhattan bars, taking photos of the Earth from far away is, well, hard.

The first photo was captured 23 years ago by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from 4 billion miles away-that's still the record. Cassini also got a shot in 2006 from 926 million miles away.

This Cassini photo, though, featured a whopping four celestial bodies. That's sort of like getting a pic of Lindsay in rehab alongside Charlie Sheen, Courtney Love, and Brooke Mueller. It'll be a rare event indeed.

"That images of our planet have been acquired on a single day from two distant solar system outposts reminds us of this nation's stunning technical accomplishments in planetary exploration," Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., said to press. "And because Mercury and Saturn are such different outcomes of planetary formation and evolution, these two images also highlight what is special about Earth. There's no place like home."