On February 14, 1990, six billion kilometers from the sun, Voyager 1 swiveled around and took a photograph of Earth. In the frame, the planet appears as a speck less than a pixel wide, caught in a band of scattered sunlight. The image, which Carl Sagan later named the Pale Blue Dot, became one of [...] The post Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics appeared first on Space Daily .
Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics
