Pale Blue Dot

Earth captured on camera by Voyager 1 from thousands of kilometers away


The pale blue dot is the name for the appearance of planet Earth from a very far distance. Maybe we already know that there is a spaceship sent from earth called Voyager 1. Voyager 1 was sent to reach the limits of the solar system by carrying information about the cultures of the world and made in various languages. Before reaching the Pluto area, at the request of a scientist named Carl Sagan, Voyager 1's camera was pointed at Earth. The last photo of Earth sent by Voyager 1 was referred to by Carl Sagan as a "pale blue dot". The photo was taken on February 14, 1990.

And this is the most beautiful quote I have ever seen in my life, written by Carl Sagan:

“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. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."

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