Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers, as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera. Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. The phrase "Pale Blue Dot" was coined by Sagan in his reflections on the photograph's significance, documented in his 1994 book of the same name.

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Happy 34th Anniversary to the famous Pale Blue Dot image!!!

Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge

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Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot

32 years ago today Voyager 1 looked back at the pale blue dot from 6 billion km away

Does anyone know a higher resolution version of the Pale Blue Dot than this one (NatGeo)? Anything larger and with less noise (but not fake-smoothed out, just clearer)?