In 1990, its primary mission over, Voyager 1 was instructed to point its camera at Earth, or the Pale Blue Dot, 6 billion kilometers away. VOYAGER 1 has been beaming data to Earth since 1977. But members of mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are as excited as ever.
Cause of Elevated A1c Levels. The higher your blood sugar levels and the longer your blood sugar remains high, the more excess sugar is present in the blood and the more opportunities this excess sugar has to bond to hemoglobin.
An A1C level between 5.7 and 6.4 percent indicates that you have pre-diabetes, which puts you at high risk for developing diabetes in the future. An A1C level of 6 percent correlates with an average blood sugar of 126 mg/dl; 7 percent correlates with an average blood sugar of 154 mg/dl, MayoClinic.com explains.