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.
