In honor of the 30th anniversary of the pictures of our planet, NASA has updated the “pale blue dot”
Source:February 1, 1990, the spacecraft Voyager 1 has received a command to turn around to make a legendary photo . Exactly 30 years ago, on 14 February 1990 the world saw the pale blue dot, suspended in the rays of the Sun. Camera of Voyager-1 made a series of 60 images that were used to create the first “family portrait” of our Solar system. Today, NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory provided an improved version of “Pale blue dot”, using modern software and methods of image processing. About it on the official website of misleading the Agency.
one Last look at our planet
Robotic spacecraft Voyager-1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1977. Initially, the mission of the Voyagers was to study the gas giants — of Jupiter and Saturn, however, both devices are now 42 cut through the vastness of space. Read more about what happened to Voyager in four decades, read our . Today, both spacecraft are up to 4 times further from the Earth than February 1, 1990. When Voyager 1 got the team to turn around, to take photos of the Earth, NASA experts were aware of the fact that both devices are no longer to bond with other objects. Immediately after the pictures were taken, began a gradual shutdown devices and other systems on both probes. Through these processes, the apparatus operates so far.
Work on improving the quality of the original image was conducted under the supervision of specialists — planetary scientist candy Hansen and engineer William Mcmannama. Both specialists helped to edit the source image. As a result, the color photography has undergone significant changes. As written , the use of special software, and Lightroom is allowed to get rid of false colors. However, the main purpose of processing “Pale blue dot” was the reduction of grain size and increase in scale. So, in the new version , the Earth is only 0.12 pixel.
Updated 30 years later, the picture of the Earth looks like this
When the probe has made this marvelous picture he was outside of Neptune at a distance of 6 billion kilometers from the Sun. That's what about this picture he wrote in his eponymous book, the astronomer Carl Sagan
«Look again at that dot. Here it is. This is our home. We. Everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard, all that has ever existed people have lived their lives on it. Many of our pleasures and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every Creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every couple in love, every mother and every father, every capable child, inventor and Explorer, every teacher of ethics, false every politician, every «superstar», each «great leader», every Saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on the mote, suspended in a sunbeam… it is Our duty — to be kinder to each other, to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot — our only home».
What is the version of the image you like — before or after the treatment? Share your impressions in the comments with participants .
the Original "pale blue dot" of Earth, taken Voyager 1 in February 1990 (NASA / JPL)
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