( CNN ) -- Remember when we all waved at Saturn last month while the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft took our picture ? Well , NASA has finally gotten the film back from the drugstore -- and you can see our whole world . A good chunk of it , anyway . People shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the July 19 `` Wave at Saturn '' event , which was organized by NASA 's Cassini mission . On Tuesday , the space agency released a collage of those images , which -- from a distance -- looks like the portion of the Earth 's Western Hemisphere that Cassini viewed at the time . Zoom in , however , and you can see everyday folks expressing their oneness with the ringed sixth planet from the sun . ( The full-resolution version is here . ) `` Hello Cassini , '' says a chalked message in one photo . `` Thanks for helping Earth wave at me today . Love , Saturn , '' read a handheld sign in another . NASA was thankful , too . `` Thanks to all of you , near and far , old and young , who joined the Cassini mission in marking the first time inhabitants of Earth had advance notice that our picture was being taken from interplanetary distances , '' said Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker in a statement released by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory . `` While Earth is too small in the images Cassini obtained to distinguish any individual human beings , the mission has put together this collage so that we can celebrate all your waving hands , uplifted paws , smiling faces and artwork . '' The images came from 30 states and 40 countries . People used a variety of technologies to transmit them , including Instagram , Google+ and e-mail . Cassini took a picture of Earth as part of a larger set of images it was collecting of the Saturn system . Scientists are busy putting together the color mosaic of the Saturn system , which they expect will take at least several more weeks to complete . The scientists who study Saturn 's rings are poring over visible-light and infrared data obtained during that campaign . The project originated because the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft , which was launched in 1997 and has been in orbit around Saturn since 2004 , was going to be taking pictures of the planet and its rings during a solar eclipse . Thanks to various cosmological arrangements , the Earth was minutely visible in the endless universe beyond . The picture of Earth , though it does n't reveal much scientifically , was a rare opportunity , NASA noted in July . `` Since the Space Age began , there have been only two images of Earth from the outer solar system , '' the agency said . And now , there are more -- and one that features so many of us . Hope you did n't blink .
Saturn releases photo mosaic of people waving at Saturn . People sent 1,400 pictures of themselves waving from 40 states , 30 countries . Meanwhile , NASA spacecraft was taking a more distant picture of Western Hemisphere . `` Wave at Saturn '' campaign was an opportunity to highlight images being taken of the planet .