Pale Blue Dot On Image Therapy December 13, 2008
Posted by Mark T. Market in Uncategorized.Tags: astronomy, Carl Sagan, Earth, Pale Blue Dot, photograph, skepticism, space, Voyager 1
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In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft completed its primary mission, having completed its Saturn fly-by. One of the last instructions sent to the spacecraft by NASA was for it to take photographs of all the planets in the Solar System from its present position.
One photo–that of the Earth from approximately 4 billion miles away, has become one of the most popular photographs in our times. On the grainy image, the Earth barely appears as an insigificant blue dot–a indicator of our place in the vast universe and the fragility of the totality of human experience.
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