![]() ![]() As for Voyager 1, its program included a visit to Titan, which excluded the further possibility of sending the spacecraft to other planets of the Solar System. And after Saturn, their paths parted forever. The spacecraft had an identical design, but different flight plans. Their target was the giant planets of the Solar System. In 1977, NASA launched a pair of Voyager probes. ![]() So, on the occasion of the International Earth Day celebrated today, we would like to tell the story of this amazing image. The famous popularizer of science, Carl Sagan, took several years to convince the aerospace administration. What is much less known is that initially NASA did not want to take such a photo. ![]() The image was taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from an incredible distance of 6 billion kilometers. This is the name of perhaps the most famous photo of our planet in history. Most fans of astronomy and cosmonautics have probably heard the term Pale Blue Dot. ![]()
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