Pale Blue Dot: Voyager Journey

It began with a small idea in the 1960s that mankind should send something in space. The journey was unpredictable, but the possibilities were unlimited. Over 7,900 people worked together on a single craft that was launched in 1977 to study the universe. Named 'Voyager', it did things no one predicted, found scenes no one expected, and has outlived its inventors.

On 14th February 1990, it took this photo of earth from elsewhere in the universe, at a distance of 6 billion kilometers. From that vantage point, Earth was just a point of light about a pixel in size. Our home, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives, the place of your joy and suffering, everything there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

This is how minuscule we are.

P.S. Its not much to see, but if you search 'pale blue dot' on Google, you can see some varieties of this photograph.

Comments

Johhana said…

Voyager Mission duration: 43 years, 4 months, 25 days, and counting...

February 15, 2021 at 1:50 PM

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March 22, 2022 at 11:08 PM

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