Monday, September 9, 2019

The Pale Blue Dot


Imagine the whole life journey is like climbing the everest, and throughout the climb, the ups and downs, the struggle, the sadness, the joy, the loss, the grief, the awekening, that we know, that we are nothing but a tiny dust in a pale blue dot of the universe.

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“The Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.

In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.

Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan.



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