On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest.
But eventually, with the mission winding down, Sagan finally got his wish - a last minute Valentine’s Day gift in 1990. Early on in Voyager’s mission, Sagan had tried to get the look back at Earth, but others on the team worried that the Sun would end up frying the camera. The striking photograph almost never happened. Voyager 1 had already finished its primary mission of studying Jupiter and Saturn towards the end of 1980, but its mission was extended - and continues to this day - so it could study the far reaches of interstellar space. The resulting image, with the Earth as a speck less than 0.12 pixels in size, became known as “the pale blue dot.” 14, 1990, famed scientist Carl Sagan gave us an incredible perspective on our home planet that had never been seen before.Īs NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was about to leave our Solar System in 1989, Sagan, who was a membe r of the mission’s imaging team, pleaded with officials to turn the camera around to take one last look back at Earth before the spaceship left our solar system.
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