What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?
Pale Blue Dot Earth on February 14 and May 15, 1990, were as follows: During a public lecture at Cornell University in 1994, Carl Sagan presented the image to the audience and shared his reflections on the deeper meaning behind the idea of the "Pale Blue Dot": Sagan also titled his 1994 book "" after the photograph. In 2015, NASA acknowledged the 25th anniversary of "Pale Blue Dot". Pale Blue Dot Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the "Voyager 1" space probe from a record distance of about kilometers ( miles, 40.5 AU), as
Contents of the Voyager Golden Record committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included. Here is an excerpt of President Carter's official statement placed on the Voyager spacecraft for its trip outside the Solar System, June 16, 1977: We cast this message into the cosmos ... Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky