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The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. NASA/JPL-CALTECH ...
That's Earth. All 7.53 billion people, trillions of plants and animals, seven continents and five oceans. All of that encompassed in a refreshed image of the iconic "Pale Blue Dot." For its 30th ...
Hansen spoke with National Geographic about what the Pale Blue Dot meant to her then, what it means to her now, and where she’s stashed the original photograph. ( This interview has been edited ...
The Pale Blue Dot was part of a final sequence of frames taken by Voyager before its camera system was shut down to conserve power. NASA/JPL The original: Just minutes after taking the image ...
Known as the "Pale Blue Dot" photo, the original image showed Earth as a tiny speck within a band of brightness caused by sunlight striking the spacecraft's instrument.The photograph was the ...
NASA took a fresh look at Voyager 1's 1990 "Pale Blue Dot" image showing Earth as a tiny speck in space. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Earth occupies a tiny speck of space in a wide, wild universe.
The original "Pale Blue Dot" image, released February 14, 1990. NASA The original photo is a compilation of images and used three color filters to balance the chromatic milieu.
This sequence of camera-pointing commands returned images of six of the solar system’s planets, as well as the Sun. The Pale Blue Dot view was created using the color images Voyager took of Earth.
The image of our planet was dubbed the "Pale Blue Dot", and this photograph and the book by Carl Sagan that it inspired became an iconic image of the fragility and uniqueness of our place in the ...
Earth appears in the original “Pale Blue Dot” as a tiny blueish-white speck of a crescent a mere 0.12 pixel in size in an image that contains 640,000 pixels. It appears afloat in a great ...
The original “Pale Blue Dot” image released in 1990. NASA The updated 30th anniversary version. NASA. The image features scattered rays of sunlight through the vast blackness of space, ...
The image is called "Pale Blue Dot" and was taken on February 14, 1990, only a few minutes before the Voyager 1 cameras were powered down to conserve power.