On February 14, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system!
Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out. The picture is actually a mosaic that combines sixty frames. It shows Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Earth, which showed up as a tiny speck now famously known as the Pale Blue Dot.
Voyager 1 was on its way toward interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time. Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out. The picture is actually a mosaic that combines sixty frames. It shows Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Earth, which showed up as a tiny speck now famously known as the Pale Blue Dot.
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00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 On February 14th, 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first family portrait of the solar system.
00:10 Voyager 1 was on its way towards interstellar space after completing its grand tour of the solar system at the time.
00:16 Carl Sagan spent years trying to convince NASA to have Voyager 1 turn around and take this picture on the way out.
00:22 The picture is actually a mosaic that combines 60 frames.
00:25 It shows Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Earth, which showed up as a tiny speck, now famously known as the pale blue dot.
00:33 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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