Happy #EarthDay!
Of all the unique and beautiful worlds we've explored, there is no doubt ours is one of the most precious.
Here's a video of our co-founder Carl Sagan unveiling the famous Pale Blue Dot image, the furthest image of Earth ever taken.
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This image of our planet was captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on February 14, 1990 from a distance of more than 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles). Our planet appears as a tiny, pale blue dot caught in one of the scattered light rays from our Sun.
(📷: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us." 🌍
You can read an excerpt from #CarlSagan's book "Pale Blue Dot" here.
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What's your favorite thing about our planet, and what are your Earth Day traditions?
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