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With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.
On St Valentine’s Day 1990, NASA’s engineers directed the space-probe Voyager 1 – at the time, 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from home – to take a photograph of Earth. Pale Blue Dot (as the ...
Earth's oceans were once green, according to a new study. Carl Sagan, the host of the popular TV show Cosmos, once described Earth as a 'pale blue dot' when explaining an image taken by Voyager 1.
The multi-faceted band's new tune " Try Not to Die " played a few songs into the set, poetically employing Carl Sagan's famous quote about Voyager 1 's " Pale Blue Dot " portrait of Earth as a ...
On February 14, 1990, NASA 's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured one of history's most iconic images — a glimpse of Earth from 3.7 billion miles away. In that moment, humanity appeared as a speck, adrift ...
Voyager 1 is still going strong, over four times further away than when it took those iconic images. The Pale Blue Dot has also changed, but humanity might not have assimilated its lessons quite yet.
See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home ...
Suspended in a sunbeam, a tiny speck of light we all call home reminds us of our shared fragility and the vastness of the cosmos. This speck, seen in Voyager 1’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” image, shows ...
What is the ‘Pale Blue Dot’? 34 years ago we caught a glimpse from 3.7 billion miles The famous image was captured by Voyager 1 and both its significance and insignificance echoed by Carl Sagan.