The Pale Blue Dot – Revisited

Earth as a small blue dot in a fuzzy beam of light.
February 5, 2019
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
Historical DateFebruary 14, 1990
PIA NumberPIA23645
Language
  • english

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. The image inspired the title of scientist Carl Sagan's book, "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space," in which he wrote: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."

The revised image was processed by JPL engineer and image processing enthusiast Kevin M. Gill with input from two of the image's original planners, Candy Hansen and William Kosmann.