This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, - TopicsExpress



          

This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagans suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. Caught in the center of scattered light rays (a result of taking the picture so close to the Sun), Earth appears as a tiny point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 01:25:53 +0000

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