Pale Blue Dot 2020
30 years ago, on 14th February 1990, Voyager 1 captured an iconic image of the Earth known as the Pale Blue Dot. This photo was taken from a staggering 6 billion kilometers away at the edge of the outer Solar System. Taken at the request of legendary astronomer Professor Carl Sagan, Sagan waxed poetically about the image a speech often referred to as the Pale Blue Dot. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this truly unique image, NASA and JPLCaltech reprocessed the original image using modern processing techniques. In honor of the Voyager 1 team and the late Carl Sagan, we put together this short tribute video celebrating the Pale Blue Dot, with a reading of Sagan s wonderful prose by Professor David Kipping.
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