Channel: Cool Worlds

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Description: 30 years ago, on 14th February 1990, Voyager 1 captured an iconic image of the Earth - known as the "Pale Blue Dot". This photo was taken from a staggering 6 billion kilometers away - at the edge of the outer Solar System. Taken at the request of legendary astronomer Professor Carl Sagan, Sagan waxed poetically about the image a speech often referred to as the "Pale Blue Dot". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of this truly unique image, NASA and JPL-Caltech reprocessed the original image using modern processing techniques. In honor of the Voyager 1 team and the late Carl Sagan, we put together this short tribute video celebrating the Pale Blue Dot, with a reading of Sagan's wonderful prose by Professor David Kipping. You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: coolworldslab.com/support There's a quite a few readings of this iconic passage out there, so hopefully this small contribution gives it a different twist! We found the following readings online, each one brings something different. ► Neil deGrasse Tyson: youtu.be/hZ7nXOkgTWo ► Brian Cox: youtu.be/XJjex_ETa8E ► Robert Picardo: youtu.be/EGbomrtSIYI ► Elon Musk: youtu.be/lVsZD2wF1vw ► And of course Carl Sagan: youtu.be/k-UyQfPhqwo ► You can download a high resolution version of this gorgeous reprocessed image over at NASA right now: jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7593 (direct link to the best quality version is photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA23645.tif). ► Background music by Joachim Heinrich, "Horizon". Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Support this artist here: joachimheinrich.bandcamp.com/track/horizon ► More information about the Voyager spacecraft: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov ► Image credit to NASA and JPL-Caltech, taken by the Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle, onboard Voyager 1 on February 14th 1990. ► Original version of the Pale Blue Dot image can be found at NASA JPL: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00452 ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!! #PaleBlueDot #CarlSagan #Voyager1