![]() ![]() 13, 1990, NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers sent commands to Voyager 1 to face Earth in order to get the photo. Sagan knew the picture would render Earth as just a dot of light, but as stated on the NASA website, the Voyager team “wanted humanity to see Earth’s vulnerability and that our home world is just a tiny, fragile speck in the cosmic ocean.” ![]() Sagan, part of Voyager’s imaging team, is credited with the idea of having Voyager 1 take images of Earth and its sibling planets. A decade later, it was time for a solar system family portrait. The spacecraft flew past Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and by Saturn on Nov. 5, 1977, to explore the solar system and beyond. ![]() Now 30 years later, Voyager 1 is nearly 14 billion miles away. 14, 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, from a distance of 3.7 billion miles. The iconic “pale blue dot” photograph of planet Earth, which was taken Feb. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |