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The famous “Pale Blue Dot” photo taken by Voyager 1. An optical effect causes multi-colored “sunbeams” that cut across a dark background at a slight diagonal from top to bottom. The Earth appears as a single, small, blue dot in an orange beam.

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The famous “Pale Blue Dot” photo taken by Voyager 1. An optical effect causes multi-colored “sunbeams” that cut across a dark background at a slight diagonal from top to bottom. The Earth appears as a single, small, blue dot in an orange beam.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 13:39:51 UTC Robert McNees

"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." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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