Pale Blue Dot at 30: Voyager 1's iconic photo of Earth from space reveals our place in the universe
Friday, February 14, 2020 - 07:20
in Astronomy & Space
On Feb. 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 probe snapped a photo of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. The image shows our home planet as it truly is — a tiny, lonely outpost of life in an incomprehensibly vast cosmos — and became iconic as a result.