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There's a fascinating reason Earth's pale blue color might help us find aliens

In 1972, the Apollo 17 crew captured the first photograph of Earth in full view. The shot, appropriately named “Blue Marble,” shows our planet roiling in shades of blue and white against the dark ...
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NASA's iconic 'Pale Blue Dot' photograph turns 30 on Friday. It shows Earth in the void of space from nearly 4 billion miles away.

On February 14, 1990, a distant spacecraft nearly 4 billion miles from Earth snapped a now iconic portrait known as the "Pale Blue Dot." In the image, Earth is smaller than a pixel, almost hidden amid ...
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Earth: A Long Distance Selfie – Reflections on the Pale Blue Dot

Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s co-author and widow, reflects on the meaning of Voyager’s “pale blue dot” image of Earth. This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the ...
Discover Magazine

Looking Back at Earth: A Tiny, Pale Blue Dot

In this portrait by the Cassini spacecraft, looking past Saturn toward the inner solar system, Earth is the tiny blue dot at center right. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) 7/23/13 | ...
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Earth: The Lone Pale Blue Dot?

A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with ...