History · 1990

The Pale Blue Dot Photograph

On Carl Sagan's request, Voyager 1 turned its camera around in February 1990 to photograph Earth from 6 billion km away. Earth appeared as a pale blue dot — 0.12 pixels across. Sagan's reflection became one of the most celebrated passages i

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