Photographers
pale blue dot
The Art of Adventure - Bruce PercyAs a photograph, pale blue dot does it for me. Puts everything into perspective. Man, wish I’d taken this shot, but if I had, I’d be an awfully long way away from home. But when I look at that little spec, I realise that this is everything I know. Everyone who’s ever lived, and everybody I know is on that title pixel.
I wish you all a merry xmas and a positive 2022.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.
