The Messenger space craft is now orbiting the sun at the same distance as Mercury. From its location, we can see the solar system from it's vantage point in this image: Solar system from Messenger
All of the planets out to Saturn are visible in the image, and the zoomed shots can even see Earth's moon and all four Galilean Satellites. Quite the impressive telescope mounted on that craft. By the looks of the image, if the cloud in the same piece of the image as Neptune's location is the Milky Way, the ecliptic is very heavily inclined to the rest of the galaxy. Almost perpendicular.
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