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To: blam

At 3.7 billion miles, I will guess this photo was taken by a Voyager space craft or the New Horizons space craft?

Where would the sun be located if this photo was significantly enlarged?


22 posted on 01/23/2022 8:04:11 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
"Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.

"In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.[1]"

Amazimgly...chips I helped build in my youth are probably on both those Voyager space craft. It is my belief that they have left our solar system and are now streaking outward in deep space.

23 posted on 01/23/2022 9:04:09 AM PST by blam
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