Editing Voyager program (section)

== ''Pale Blue Dot'' ==
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[[File:Pale Blue Dot.png|thumb|right|Seen from {{convert|6|e9km|e9mi|abbr=off|sp=us}}, Earth appears as a "[[pale blue dot]]" (the blueish-white speck approximately halfway down the light band to the right).]]
''Pale Blue Dot'' is a photograph of [[Earth]] taken on February 14, 1990, by the ''[[Voyager 1]]'' [[space probe]] from a distance of approximately {{Nowrap|6 billion}} kilometers ({{nowrap|3.7 billion}} miles, 40.5 [[Astronomical unit|AU]]), as part of that day's [[Family Portrait (Voyager)|''Family Portrait'']] series of images of the [[Solar System]].<ref name="NASA-20200212">{{cite news |author=Staff |title=Pale Blue Dot Revisited |url=https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23645 |date=12 February 2020 |work=[[NASA]] |access-date=12 February 2020 |archive-date=12 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212230826/https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23645 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The Voyager program's discoveries during the primary phase of its mission, including new close-up color photos of the major planets, were regularly documented by print and electronic media outlets. Among the best-known of these is an image of the Earth as a ''[[Pale Blue Dot]]'', taken in 1990 by ''Voyager 1'', and popularized by Carl Sagan,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pale Blue Dot|last=Sagan|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Sagan|publisher=[[Random House]] USA Inc|year=1997|isbn=978-0-345-37659-6|location=United States|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/palebluedot00carl|page=[https://archive.org/details/palebluedot00carl/page/6 6]-[https://archive.org/details/palebluedot00carl/page/7 7]}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us....The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.... To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.}}