"Pale Blue Dot" (I)

[Carl] Sagan . . . persuaded NASA engineers to turn the Voyager I spacecraft around on Valentine’s Day in 1990, so that it could take a picture of Earth from the very edge of our solar system, about 4 billion miles away. In the photograph, Earth appears as a tiny bluish speck. Sagan later wrote of the photograph, “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives . . . [on that] mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” ~writersalmanac.publicradio.org 11/9/07 [quoted from Pale Blue Dot, p. 6, one of Sagan’s last books, 1994]

“Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” Namaste.

image: “pale blue dot” – image of Earth (arrow) taken by Voyager; others say at 3.7 billion miles away http://tinyurl.com/2lwbnx