Feb. 13, in 1990, Voyager 1, while heading out to the edge of the Solar System, began a four-hour series of photographs in a look backward which captured the Sun and six of its planets.
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Feb. 13, in 1990, Voyager 1, while heading out to the edge of the Solar System, began a four-hour series of photographs in a look backward which captured the Sun and six of its planets.
https://i.redd.it/46do2yts8pjg1.jpeg
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V’Ger !
“The Creator must join with V’Ger.”
> But for us, it’s different. 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. – Carl Sagan
Meanwhile Voyager 1 photo from Pluto “immaculate”
2 of these planets have not been visited since then and have never had long term observation from dedicated orbiters.
SMH
Carl Sagan saved that photo, what was it – a pale blue dot in a beam of light?
Welll.. how technically did Voyager take photos? And, transmit them back. Was it digital technology back then in the 70s?