Happy Birthday, Voyager 1

To Celebrate: An Animated Adaptation of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

Thirty-five years ago today, Voyager 1 was launched into space, carrying the computing power of a fancy calculator watch, an 8-track player, and a gold record that tells the story of our planet and race. Today, she is over 18 billion kilometers away from Earth, in the midst of leaving our Solar System and entering interstellar space.

Celebrate with this animated version of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, by Adam Winnik, based on Voyager 1’s photo of the same name:

As you peer into this image, to see us twinkling in only a handful of azure pixels, take note of our place in this great expanse: A fragile home, filled with curious apes, the only life form that we know of capable of building ships that can sail distant cosmic seas, and from that vantage point, look back upon themselves.

(via Brain Pickings)

Source: brainpickings.org

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