On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. Image: NASA / JPLĬarl Sagan’s historic monologue, inspired by the photograph and now famously known as the ‘Pale Blue Dot’, sheds impeccable light on our existential reality:įrom this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. Seen from about 6 billion kilometres, Earth appears as a tiny bluish dot amidst deep space bathing under an orange stripe of light. On February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was 4 billion miles away from planet earth, turned its camera around before exiting our solar system and took the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’, much after Carl Sagan’s relentless request, which later inspired his monologue of the same title. “The earth is a very small stage in the vast cosmic arena.”
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