Pale blue dot



    Together with brilliant scientists, I was always admired by scientific popularizers of science.

    Pale Blue Dot or pale blue dot is a famous photograph of the Earth, made by the probe Voyager 1 from a distance of 5.9 billion kilometers. Many even call it the most important photograph in the history of mankind. The name and idea of ​​taking such a picture belongs to Karl Sagan , one of the most famous popularizers of science.

    In 1994, the book of the same name, Pale Blue dot: a vision of the human future in space, was published, and in 1996, Karl Sagan made his opening speech. It is her that I suggest you listen to.

    Original (Sagan’s voice on video hosting was put on a lot of different pictures, and there are a lot of similar videos)

    PS Though this essay though (it seems to me) already appeared on Habré, and the translation into Russian exists (although he just killed me I don’t like it), I just wanted to translate it for a long time :)

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