Pale Blue Dot
Original title
Voyager 1 narrow-angle camera, NASA/JPL Voyager 1 (NASA/JPL)
- Institution
- NASA Image and Video Library ↗
- Rights
A NASA mission image produced at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA states that its images are generally not subject to copyright in the United States, and JPL's image use policy allows use for any purpose without prior permission; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech.
- Description
- A grainy field of deep blue fading to pale violet, crossed by faint bands of scattered sunlight; inside one band, just right of centre, the Earth is a single tiny bluish point.
- Image
- 1600 × 1583
source file - Catalogue no.
- G-008002
coldlibrary.com/g/008002 - Credit line
- Voyager 1 narrow-angle camera, NASA/JPL, Pale Blue Dot, 14 February 1990; reprocessed 2020. NASA Image and Video Library, JPL Image Use Policy (any purpose; credit NASA/JPL-Caltech). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/008002
On 14 February 1990, shortly before its cameras were switched off for good, Voyager 1 turned and photographed the planets from about six billion kilometres away. In this frame the Earth is smaller than a single pixel, and the bands of light are sunlight scattered inside the camera. This version, made for the picture’s thirtieth anniversary, reprocesses the original data with modern software.
