Voyager 1 takes The Pale Blue Dot photograph

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14 February, 1990

Voyager 1 took the now famous The Pale Blue Dot photograph of our planet Earth on 14th February 1990. The photo shows Earth as a tiny dot and was taken when the spacecraft was at a distance of 6 billion kilometers from our planet.

The craft was launched by NASA on 5th September 1977.