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Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot

Photojournal: PIA23645

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Published: February 5, 2019
Historical Date: February 14, 1990

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. The
image inspired the title of scientist Carl Sagan's
book, "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in
Space," in which he wrote: "Look again at that dot. That's
here. That's home. That's us."

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Voyager 1 was speeding out of the solar system —

beyond Neptune and about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion
kilometers) from the Sun — when mission managers
commanded it to look back toward home for a final time.
It snapped a series of 60 images that were used to
create the first “family portrait” of our solar system.

The picture that would become known as the Pale Blue

Dot shows Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight.
Voyager 1 was so far away that — from its vantage point
— Earth was just a point of light about a pixel in size.

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