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The farthest view of Earth from space

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot, taken on February 14, 1990, remains the farthest view of Earth ever taken by a spacecraft. The NASA probe was 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun at the time. Writing in his book Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan famously wrote: “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.”

Dubbed the “Pale Blue Dot,” this Voyager 1 image from 1990 is the farthest view of Earth ever taken. This enhanced version of the image was released in 2020.
Dubbed the “Pale Blue Dot,” this Voyager 1 image from 1990 is the farthest view of Earth ever taken. This enhanced version of the image was released in 2020. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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