'There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world,' wrote Sagan when the iconic image was first revealed to the world. It was his idea for Voyager to turn around and take the opportunity to image Earth and its companions before its mission to the edges of the Solar System took it too far away. Preserve and cherish that pale blue dot are creatures of the cosmos light years. 14, 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, from a distance of 3.7 billion miles.

Sagan himself was instrumental in the photo being taken. Voyager 1’s poignant photograph of the distant Earth as the spacecraft sped toward interstellar space happened just 30 years ago By Carolyn Porco on FebruRemastered image of Earth as a. The iconic pale blue dot photograph of planet Earth, which was taken Feb. The term “Pale Blue Dot” was coined by Sagan as he reflected on the significance of the photograph, which portrays Earth as a small, insignificant dot in what appears to be a beam of light (but is actually lens flare) in a vast cosmos. The Pale Blue Dot - Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey Gautier Parfait 64 subscribers 9.4K views 5 years ago A landmark speech that I will never forget. Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space was published in 1994, inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe before it traveled out of the Solar System and into interstellar space.

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