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Revisiting the Pale Blue Dot at 30

The iconic Pale Blue Dot is an image of Earth taken from approximately 4 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990. Earth is captured as a tiny speck in a beam of scattered sunlight, inspiring Carl Sagan to think about the fragility and uniqueness of our home planet, "a pale blue dot. Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the Sun. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic images of Earth, NASA processed a new version of Voyager’s "Pale Blue Dot." Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is the most distant human-made object in existence. Watch the video to learn more.
 

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Story Credits

Writer:
Rebecca Roth (InuTeq)

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Mission:
Voyager

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Voyager
SVS >> Spacecraft >> Voyager
SVS >> App
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Pale Blue Dot