NASA Reveals Photo of Earth Four Billion Miles Away

NASA Reveals Photo of Earth Four Billion Miles Away

It’s the 30th anniversary of the “Pale Blue Dot” image.

NASA commemorated the incredible feat with a release of the remastered, iconic image.

Taken by NASA’s Voyager probe, Earth appears as a tiny blue pixel in the universe, suspended in a sunbeam.

Two of the imaging scientists who had been working on the Voyager mission, Carl Sagan and Carolyn Porco.

Were behind the Voyager taking the photo before it shut down its cameras to conserve power.

Sagan really pushed for the photo.

Other members of the Voyager team said it wouldn’t be providing any scientific data, so there was no point.

But Sagan and other members of the team felt it was necessary to have visuals to show Earth’s vulnerability in the grand scheme of things.

They wanted people back home to understand that their world is just a tiny speck in a much larger space.

Luckily Sagan succeeded, and now we have the “Pale Blue Dot"