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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan, who would be 89 today.

Sagan famously wrote about the 'Pale Blue Dot' - "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Voyager 1 took the image of the "Pale Blue Dot" on Feb 14, 1990, from 6 bil km away, minutes before its cameras were shut off forever.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited
#palebluedot #Voyager #Sagan
5/n

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• Image of the Pale Blue Dot. The image was processed by JPL engineer and image processing enthusiast Kevin M. Gill with input from two of the image's original planners, Candy Hansen and William Kosmann. Full quote from Carl Sagan from Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (remote)