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Voyager 1 spacecraft's last photo of our planet - Earth seen from 4 billion miles away

 
posted on Nov 17, 2008 by Anonymous

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This image of Earth is one of 60 frames taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a distance of more than 6 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane. In the image Earth is a mere point of light, a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Our planet was caught in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the Sun.
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Voyager 1 spacecraft's last photo of our planet - Earth seen from 4 billion miles away
Voyager 1 spacecraft's last photo of our planet - Earth seen from 4 billion miles away

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edit - remove - report - save #1 - by Anonymous Nov 18, 2008

in the original pic you actually can't see earth at all.

edit - remove - report - save #2 - by k.o. Dec 5, 2008

except for the spec in the light ray like it says

edit - remove - report - save #3 - by Anonymous Jan 11, 2009

Are they still recieving images from this thing?


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