The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent by NASA directed its cameras to snap one more historic array of planetary photos on February 14, 1990. The spacecraft took one of the most historical images of Earth, named ‘Pale Blue Dot.’ The image was taken from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers.
Pale Blue Dot
The apparent size of Earth in the shot is less than a pixel; the globe appears as a small dot against the immensity of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.
The astronomer to suggest this magnificent idea was Carl Sagan. He has rightfully said,
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Read Further: Pale Blue Dot – Wikipedia
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