NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Earth as a point of light between the icy rings of Saturn on April 12, 2017.

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Perspective is everything.

NASA recently released , and our planet looks like littlemore than a tiny spot of lightbetween the icy rings of Saturn.

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, the image capturedApril 12 was taken some 870 million miles from our planet.

While it's impossible to see on the image, the part of Earth captured is that of the southern Atlantic Ocean. In another cropped image, our moon is also visible, but barely.

According to NASA, the Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.

After a 20-year run and the completion of 20 planned orbits around Saturn, in September when itcrashes onto the ringed planet’s surface.

NASA noted this is fromCassini. For more information about the Cassini mission, visit NASA'swebsite .