Thursday, May 7, 2020

Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, animated | The Kid Should See This

Pale Blue Dot, a 2-D animation by London-based studio ORDER. A visual response to Carl Sagan's famed ' Pale Blue Dot' piece where he muses on our planet's appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth. More Must-Watch: these Carl Sagan-inspired videos.

Mission Status

Instrument Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS) ON ON Low-Energy Charged Particles (LECP) ON ON Magnetometer (MAG) ON ON Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS) ON ON Plasma Science (PLS) OFF ON Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "Interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey through the Universe.

Voyager Golden Record

The Voyager Golden Record is a gramophone record, attached to the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form that may find it.

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