On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...
"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.
This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020, uses modern image-processing software and techniques to ...
In his book, Sagan wrote: "The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet.
Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with ...
Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power photosynthesis, which may be because they ...
fragile speck in the cosmic ocean. Sagan would entitle his 1994 book on astronomy and philosophy, “Pale Blue Dot.” ...
On Valentines Day in 1990, NASAs Voyager 1 captured the iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot image, showing Earth as a tiny speck from 3.7 ...
In that moment, all of humanity was captured in a ghostly fragment of a pixel swimming through an unrelenting sea of darkness — a "Pale Blue Dot" lost in a void. Carl Sagan — the astronomer ...