If youβre in love with space exploration then youβll fall for this: itβs the picture of Earth taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it passed the orbit of Pluto in 1990. That image of our planet from 4 billion miles away inspired Carl Sagan to write his famous βPale Blue Dotβ passage, and reminds us that we are all just floating on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
This is from a post I originally published in 2010. Iβll keep trotting it out until itβs not cool anymore. (Which I donβt think will ever happen.)
Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as seen by Voyager 1 in 1990 (Credit: NASA)
On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of traveling the solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed the orbit of Pluto and turned its camera around to take a series of photos of the planetsβ¦
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