{"id":191,"date":"2010-11-08T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:39:36","slug":"the-blue-marble-vs-the-pale-blue-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/08\/the-blue-marble-vs-the-pale-blue-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Marble vs the Pale Blue Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/9a-pale-blue-dot.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"9a.pale blue dot\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/9a-pale-blue-dot.jpg?resize=396%2C198\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisathorpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/9a-pale-blue-dot.jpg?w=396&amp;ssl=1 396w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisathorpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/9a-pale-blue-dot.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lisathorpe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/9a-pale-blue-dot.jpg?resize=350%2C175&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard an old interview not long ago with Carl Sagan.\u00a0 The interview was on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the most distant photo we have taken of the earth from space.\u00a0 Carl Sagan dubbed it \u201cThe Pale Blue Dot\u201d.\u00a0 It is a photograph of the planet earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space.\u00a0 By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the Solar System, to turn its camera around and to take one last photograph of Earth across the enormity of space.\u00a0 This interview touched me and inspired me to search around the Internet and look at some amazing photos of space. Our first glimpse of ourselves from space was in 1946. A grainy black and white photo sent back from a camera riding on the back of a V-2 missile.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until the late 1960 that we saw the now iconic images of ourselves on \u201cThe Blue Marble\u201d (this image was taken in 2001 by NASA\u2019s Terra satellite).<\/p>\n<p>This notion of us in the universe, riding along on this big and blue and beautiful planet looms large in our psyches (in mine at least).\u00a0 And while the \u201cPale Blue Dot\u201d photo was taken 20 years ago, it isn\u2019t an image that I&#8217;ve mounted in my internal photo album, it is not the vison I have of our place in the universe.\u00a0 That big \u201cBlue Marble\u201d is much more comforting, substantial, significant.\u00a0 Can that be us on the distant pale blue dot? 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