Our Humble ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Home
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, 28 Oct 2024
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service
By request of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, Voyager-1 looked back a last time to Earth and took this ‘food for thought‘ picture revealing our real dimension in cosmic reality: practically nothing.
Earth, the “Pale Blue Dot.” Photograph captured by the Voyager-1 in 1990 from Saturn [right, slightly below the center]. (NASA/JPL)
Tags: Astronomy, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Earth, Food for thought - Editorial cartoon, Humanity, Life
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 28 Oct 2024.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Our Humble ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Home, is included. Thank you.
If you enjoyed this article, please donate to TMS to join the growing list of TMS Supporters.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 License.
Join the discussion!
We welcome debate and dissent, but personal — ad hominem — attacks (on authors, other users or any individual), abuse and defamatory language will not be tolerated. Nor will we tolerate attempts to deliberately disrupt discussions. We aim to maintain an inviting space to focus on intelligent interactions and debates.