Pale Blue Dot 2020
30 years ago, on 14th February 1990, Voyager 1 captured an iconic image of the Earth - known as the "Pale Blue Dot". This photo was taken from a staggering 6 billion kilometers away - at the edge of the outer Solar System. Taken at the request of legendary astronomer Professor Carl Sagan, Sagan waxed poetically about the image a speech often referred to as the "Pale Blue Dot". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this truly unique image, NASA and JPL-Caltech reprocessed the original image using modern processing techniques. In honor of the Voyager 1 team and the late Carl Sagan, we put together this short tribute video celebrating the Pale Blue Dot, with a reading of Sagan's wonderful prose by Professor David Kipping.
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There's a quite a few readings of this iconic passage out there, so hopefully this small contribution gives it a different twist! We found the following readings online, each one brings something different.
► Neil deGrasse Tyson: • Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot," as read by N...
► Brian Cox: • Brian Cox reads Carls Sagan's pale blue do...
► Robert Picardo: • Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot - The Planetary...
► Elon Musk: • Elon Musk: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond
► And of course Carl Sagan: • Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot: "You Are Here"...
► You can download a high resolution version of this gorgeous reprocessed image over at NASA right now: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph... (direct link to the best quality version is https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tif....
► Background music by Joachim Heinrich, "Horizon". Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Support this artist here: https://joachimheinrich.bandcamp.com/...
► More information about the Voyager spacecraft: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
► Image credit to NASA and JPL-Caltech, taken by the Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle, onboard Voyager 1 on February 14th 1990.
► Original version of the Pale Blue Dot image can be found at NASA JPL: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cat...
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