Voyager 1 pictures earth

Pale Blue Dot

The furthest picture of the earth ever taken, by Voyager before it left the Solar System

Pale Blue Dot; Voyager 1 Feb 14, 1990.

Among Voyager 1's last photographs was this shot of Earth seen from 3.8 billion miles away, dubbed the "Pale Blue Dot" by Voyager scientist Carl Sagan

Voyager Disk reference card. (Credit: Gizmodo) Voyager I is now officially flying into interstellar space. In the future, an alien spaceship may come across it. When they do, they will find two things: a golden disk and a record player. How to interpret the instructions on the cover.

On September 18, 1977, as it headed toward the outer solar system, Voyager 1 looked back and acquired a stunning image of our Earth and moon.

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The Pale Blue Dot - from Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 4 billion miles away, #science #astronomy #nasa

Pale Blue Dot by Laurie Greasley

4 minutes | Carl Sagan narrates the story of the Pale Blue Dot, the one place we all call home.

Earth and the moon are two bright dots floating in an immense black void in a new photo captured by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Jan. 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million kilometers).

Earth from 11 billion miles away. The Edge of the Solar System

Voyager is the reason I got into planetary science. As a colleague once put it, "You only...

Voyager 1 is a 733-kilogram probe launched September 5, 1977. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets. Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, traveling away from both the Earth and the Sun at a relatively faster speed than any other probe.As of September 12, 2013, Voyager 1 is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from the Sun. On August 25, 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human made object to…

Crescent Earth and Moon from Voyager 1. It was the first time a spacecraft had pictured both bodies in the same frame. Voyager was 11.66 million kilometers (7.25 million miles) from Earth on 1977-09-18 when this image was taken. (Credit: NASA / JPL)

The earth and the other seven planets (in case you didn’t know, Pluto is no longer considered a planet) orbit the sun, which is a very special star. Nevertheless, it is just one of probably more than a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars in the universe. Each of these stars has a gravitational field, and at least … Continue reading "Has Voyager 1 Left The Solar System?"

JUPITER ECLIPSING THE SUN Photograph by M. Belton (NOAO), J. Burns (Cornell) et al., Galileo Project, JPL, NASA In this incredible photograph taken from the Galileo Spacecraft …

This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded September 18, 1977.