A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA’s Jet ...
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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Thirty years ago, on February 14, 1990, the ...
On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. In that ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured this view of Earth—appearing as a speck of light—on February 14, 1980, at a distance of roughly 3.2 billion miles (6 billion km) from the Sun—beyond the orbit of ...
[Carl Sagan reading from Pale Blue Dot]: We turn the cameras back and take a photograph of the planet from where it came. Ann Druyan: And it was he who started in 1981 to plead for the Earth. With ...