Carl Sagan Persuades Voyager 1 to Capture Iconic Pale Blue Dot Image
“On February 14, 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the Pale Blue Dot—a faint, pixel-sized image of Earth from 6 billion kilometers away—after years of advocacy by Carl Sagan, despite NASA’s initial resistance to the maneuver.” The Mission’s Final Act NASA’s Voyager 1 mission, launched in 1977, was designed to explore the outer planets. By … Read more