25th Anniversary Of The "Pale Blue Dot"

[mrjarrell]

25 years ago Voyager 1 took the iconic picture of the solar system, on its way to interstellar space. Earth was just the "pale blue dot". A small, shining dot in the sky. Voyager has since left the solar system, but it left us with quite a legacy.

Happy Birthday, 'Pale Blue Dot!' Famous Space Photo Turns 25

These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever "portrait" of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, when the probe was about 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth. Clockwise from top left: Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

[1775usmarine]

Hard to believe NASA use to mean something.

 

[1911ly]

Hard to believe NASA use to mean something.

QFT!! I miss those days. Although we are doing some bad azz Mars stuff.

I remember the Voyager 1 and 2 launches well. Cool stuff!