Pale Blue Dot: An Alien View Of Earth

February 13 2010, 8:20pm

Twenty years ago this week, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured a radical view of Earth. Shot from a distance of 4 billion miles, the image showed our planet as a tiny speck amid the vastness of space. Carl Sagan, who lobbied for the photo, said "it reduced our entire world to a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam"