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‘Consider again that dot’: How NASA's Voyager and Carl Sagan showed us Earth like never before

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NASA 's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured the iconic " Pale Blue Dot " image on February 14, 1990 .

The image changed the way humanity perceives Earth .

Voyager 1 is now 25 billion kilometers from Earth , four times farther than at the time the photograph was taken.

The photograph was part of a series of 60 images collectively known as the "Family Portrait of the Solar System ".

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