A stunning new photo of Earth from Saturn was released by NASA thanks to one of its major spacecrafts, Cassini. The photo that's reminiscent of "Pale Blue Dot" is one of Cassini's latest photos before it begins its demise at Saturn.

Between Saturn's Rings

One of Cassini's latest photos was of the home that it left 20 years ago. The new photo released by NASA was taken by Cassini on April 12 at 1:41 a.m. EDT, and shows the Earth as a tiny dot in between the icy rings of Saturn.

Although this particular image of Earth is small and faint, a closer look would reveal the Earth's moon as the smaller, fainter light on its left.

What's more, though it is almost impossible to tell due to its distance to the planet when the photo was taken, the portion of Earth facing Cassini in the photo was the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Also seen in the photo are Saturn's A Ring at the top, and the F Ring at the bottom.

NASA states that from Saturn, the Earth and the inner planets of the solar system are close to the sun and could easily be captured in photos, but that such opportunities were rare during the entirety of Cassini's mission.

Cassini's End

Perhaps the photo was a rightful goodbye to Cassini, as the spacecraft is scheduled to begin its crash at Saturn on April 23. The crash was planned by NASA in order to avoid contaminating Saturn's moons, locations that are believed to be harboring alien life.

By allowing the $3.26 billion spacecraft to burn and crash onto Saturn's surface, they ensure that the craft will harbor no alien life.

Cassini left the Earth in October of 1997, and reached Saturn in 2004, where it carried on its mission and garnered mounds upon mounds of information about Saturn and its moons including the possibility of Titan having electric sand, and returning the closest photos of Saturn's moon, Pan.

Reminiscent Of 'Pale Blue Dot'

Cassini's latest photo is somewhat reminiscent of "Pale Blue Dot," another photo of the Earth from a distance, but was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Valentine's Day in 1990. Dubbed as the "Pale Blue Dot" as the Earth was immortalized as a faint dot in the middle of scattered light, it was also the very first "family" photo of the our solar system.

Voyager 1 is more than three times farther from the Earth as it was when the photo was taken, and has entered interstellar space.