Post: The Pale Blue Dot
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08-07-2016, 06:05 PM
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Nana
Can’t trickshot me!
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's 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.
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Carl Sagan and his emotional speech:
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08-09-2016, 02:42 AM
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Geo
Don't Believe The Title
Originally posted by Nana
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan's 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.
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Carl Sagan and his emotional speech:
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Personally love this picture, taken from the Cassini Spacecraft orbiting Saturn (2006) it isn't a rendition and was taken as the sun was directly behind the planet. Earth can be seen as a small blueish dot to the left above the inner rings.
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