![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That speck is Earth, as seen by Voyager 1 from about 4 billion miles away. If you look closely, you can see a tiny speck of light. But upon a closer look it is a much more dramatic photo. One picture at first glance is mostly dark and appears to show nothing at all. Between Februand June 6, 1990, Voyager 1 returned 60 frames back to Earth. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human. Narrow-angle images of Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Sun were acquired as the spacecraft built the wide-angle mosaic. We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. A series of pictures were taken of the sun and the planets using Voyager 1's cameras. At the request of Carl Sagan, on February 14, 1990, NASA engineers turned the spacecraft around in order to take the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system as seen from the outside. It flew by Jupiter on March 5, 1979, followed by Saturn on November 12, 1980. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 space probe was launched by NASA from the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida. ![]()
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