39 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 1 captured the most iconic image showing Earth as a ‘Pale Blue Dot’. Now they have remastered this iconic photo in which Earth is seen ‘as a single, bright blue pixel’. On February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 space probe snapped this image just before its cameras were intentionally turned off to conserve power. NASA used image-processing software to offer a cleaned-up and sharper view from Voyager’s perspective as it captured the epic photo. Voyager 1 also shot five other planets and the sun, in a total of 60 images that NASA nicknamed “The Family Portrait of the Solar System.” Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 haven’t produced images in decades but two aged spacecraft are still going strong and now their instruments are helping scientists to know about interstellar space.
NASA Remastered Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Image Of Earth
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