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14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:39
Publish Date: 2018-02-13 21:05:40
Description: Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space probe. Voyager 1 was launched in September 1977 to study the outer Solar System including flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. Having completed the mission for which it had been created in November 1980, the spacecraft was allowed to continue its flight and leave the Solar System. Carl Sagan, the astronomer and author, was a member of the Voyager imaging team and suggested that Voyager 1 should take a last photograph of Earth before the cameras were deactivated to allow their power to be ...
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