It was on a Valentine’s Day in 1990, when Voyager I took this photo of something that no human had ever seen in history. Famed astronomer Carl Sagan requested that NASA take the shot as the small satellite flew by the back side of the planet Saturn, and through its rings was able to catch a glimpse of what Sagan would later refer to as “a pale blue dot”. An image of our planet that was only the size of one pixel appearing as a pale blue dot against the vastness of space laying quietly in a sunbeam of light over 6 billion kilometers away.
Ode to the Dot
Ode to the Dot
Ode to the Dot
It was on a Valentine’s Day in 1990, when Voyager I took this photo of something that no human had ever seen in history. Famed astronomer Carl Sagan requested that NASA take the shot as the small satellite flew by the back side of the planet Saturn, and through its rings was able to catch a glimpse of what Sagan would later refer to as “a pale blue dot”. An image of our planet that was only the size of one pixel appearing as a pale blue dot against the vastness of space laying quietly in a sunbeam of light over 6 billion kilometers away.