On Valentine’s Day 1990, NASA Voyageer 1 spacecraft I took what will become one of the most famous pictures that were ever taken: a land view of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km). At that moment, all mankind was arrested in a pixel ghost that swims through a sea of modest darkness – a “pale blue point” lost in a vacuum.
Karl Sagan He is the astronomer, the author, the science and science famous for the “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” TV series-is one of the reasons why this image exists.
As a member of the Voyageer team, Sajan helped develop Golden records This riding on twin investigations carries symbolic examples of human culture and peace messages for any virtual foreigners who may one day face. After the launch of the Voyageer 1 probe in 1977, Sagan also suggested that the spacecraft takes a picture of the Earth on its flight to the outer solar system.
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Writing in his book Pale (1994), Sagan described the famous and strong image today as it was decades ago.
“See again to this point. That’s here. This is the house. That’s we,” Sagan books
“Every hunter and around, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and farmer, every young couple in love, every mother and father, optimistic child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every” star “, every” Supreme Leader, “every saint and sinner in the history of our gender lived there – on a mixture of dust suspended in the sun’s beam.”
A copy is not available from the image of “Pale Blue Dot”. The Earth is a bright bright pixel inside the most right sunlight. (Credit Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Thirty -five years later, a lot changed for the ground, and for investigations into Voyager. Voyager 1 is more than 15.5 billion miles (25 billion km) of the ground Technical difficulties ).
Unfortunately, the space between the stars has proven to be a little empty, so it seems that Voyageer 1 will spend the Valentine’s Day alone again. We hope that some of us on Earth can provide a little love for the spacecraft that helped us see our fragile and wonderful planet from a new perspective.
