That image is known as the “ Pale Blue Dot” and it illustrates just how fragile and small our planet is. On Valentine’s Day in 1990, the spacecraft snapped another notable photograph of the Earth, this time from 3.7 billion away. This would not be the last “look back” for Voyager 1 either. The photo provides a look back at the Earth and Moon as the spacecraft traveled further and further into deep space. The iconic image was taken while Voyager 1 was en route to Jupiter. This first-of-its-kind photo was actually made from three pictures and underwent processing by the Image Processing Lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. It’s been 43 years since Voyager 1 snapped this striking photograph (see image to the right), 7.25 million miles from Earth. Less than two weeks later, Voyager 1 achieved its first milestone – capturing the first image taken by a spacecraft to include both the Earth and Moon in the same frame. 5, 1977, Voyager 1 launched on a decades-long mission to study the outer solar system.
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