Earth as a 'pale blue dot' – 6.4 billion miles away
Earth as a 'pale blue dot' – 6.4 billion miles away
This image was acquired by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and shows our planet as a tiny pale blue dot in the darkness of space. In 1990, NASA decided to turn the spacecraft and have its camera take a look back at Earth. Our home planet at that time was 6.4 billion kilometers away. This is the longest distance ever from which a picture of our home planet has been acquired.
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NASA.